Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on. Structuring in Sevens.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. A new product emerges, which eventually opens up a new market.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

Increasingly, therefore, the management of people is a ‘marketing job.’ ’ And in marketing one does not begin with the question, What do we want? Develop a rigorous performance management system that identifies your A, B, and C players. They have to be persuaded.

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Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As the CoachingOurselves marketing director Warren Cohen says: “In the past, the public would recognize and celebrate organizations that made contributions to society. Our co-founder Henry Mintzberg, has long been proclaiming this need for change. It’s time for leadership development professionals to step up and provide the solution.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

And thinking is in fact quite an important activity when it comes to assessing and developing a strategy. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Because it means that you don’t have much time to think and reflect. Stuff happens.

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