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
parachute understanding
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
change art practice
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
leadership reading swimming
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
smart people needs
When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
learning knowledge community
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
two creative leader
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
skills two together
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.
standards-set being-the-best lows
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
somewhere-else ideas marketing
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.
decision patterns strategy
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions
motivational thought-provoking four
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.
organization community resources
Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources
reflecting
Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.
strategy sophisticated social
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.