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.
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".
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.