"What you get out of an M.B.A. programme,……" — Henry Mintzberg
"What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well."
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Henry Mintzberg
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37 Quotes by Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg has 37 quotes on this site.
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Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic…
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No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.
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What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis…
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Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
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If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control.…
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That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would…
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Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.
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A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly…
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Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves…
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Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.
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The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And…
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Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
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If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
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Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
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I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
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