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
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.
data theory researchers
Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.
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.
data may intellect
While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.
important speech information
An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.
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.
data essentials development
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
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.