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
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An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
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The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.