Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg, OC OQ FRSCis an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1939
CountryCanada
Henry Mintzberg quotes about
technology iphone television
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?
discipline understanding marketing
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.
smart ideas two
The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.
dirty library information
Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.
corporations economic social
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
obsession seems uncertainty
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.
weed garden tomatoes
Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
hazards prime managers
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
technology community individualism
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
leadership organization way
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.
government community private-sector
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
horse thinking ideas
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.
experience finance functional matter programmes tools understanding
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.
assume assumption people program programs younger
What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.