In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2015

The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld. The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company by @profhamel. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. Becoming an Enterprise Leader: The Seven Seismic Shifts by @watkinsmichael. Can You Manage Up?

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Mintzberg Agility Uncertainty CEO 150

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

” -Henry Mintzberg. The most successful managers understand that one of their key jobs is to support their people—to provide them with the training, coaching, and other things they need to gain the experience and responsibility they need to do the best job possible and to progress in their careers. ” -John Wooden.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Many curricular innovations, like the critiques they address, remain anchored to a traditional view of the business school as a knowledge hub whose function is to create and disseminate cutting-edge management theories and best practices.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.”

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