Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The following is a guest piece from McGill Professor (and fellow Montrealer) Henry Mintzberg. In our International Masters Program for Managers, the 10-day worldly mindset is devoted to the social, political, and economic issues around. Do we need more globalization on this globe? How about more worldliness in this world?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! Seth Godin says, “This is the management book of the year. Aaron Dignan.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 24, 2012

I asked Professor Henry Mintzberg, author of 140 articles and 13 books, “If you waved a magic wand over businesses, what would you change?” Mintzberg’s quiet voice disarms but he [.]. He said, “I’d get rid of all MBA’s.” He explained, “We’d lose some good people but in the whole it would be a positive move.”

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 13, 2022

I asked Canadian scholar and author Henry Mintzberg to share the word of advice he most enjoyed giving managers. He said, “I can give you one word. I was underwhelmed. His wisdom… Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers by @petefriedes. Doing Leadership. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn. Read " The Art of Receiving " by @LollyDaskal. The Many Faces of Greed by @FSonnenberg.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 6, 2013

I just read a GREAT blog post from John Hunter of Curious Cat Management – Leadership and Management. Having also written about my concern separating leadership from management. Management vs. Leadership. The Manager AS Leader. A manager that is not concerned about doing the right things is a lousy manager.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 3, 2023

Management is a practice, not a profession or a science. To appreciate the true complexities of managing, we have to understand its intrinsic conundrums. Today’s guest post is by Henry Mintzberg, author of Understanding Organizations…Finally! Management is a practice, not a profession or a science.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Daniel R Murphy | Eisenhower Time Management by @jamesstrock. Henry Mintzberg Doesn’t Mind Being The Rebel Of Management Theory by @profkjmoore. Here are a selection of tweets from December 2019 that you don't want to miss: A Noble Purpose Alone Won’t Transform Your Company via @mitsmr. 20 businesses that died in the 2010s.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2012

When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it." — Henry Mintzberg. “To help others develop, start with yourself! The end result: No one gets much better.” - Marshall Goldsmith.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Philip Kotler, Professor, Kellogg School of Management. ? Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University. ? Linda Hill, Harvard Business School.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

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. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? ohau8622: Tired of Being Middle Management? Look back, zero in on what worked and adjust your focus. Make Quarter 2 look like the best of Quarter 1. AubreyDaniels: Famous Sports Wisdom to Use at Work. by @profkjmoore. Try Being a Middle Leader.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Inspired by Henry Mintzberg.) If the most powerful thing leaders do is connect, the most dangerous is isolation. Relationship building: “Half of Americans view themselves as lonely,” David Cordani, chief executive of Cigna. Cigna… Continue reading →

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Henry Mintzberg by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (March 15, 2010). To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * Managing author Henry Mintzberg believes that to improve business schools, we must first understand the essence of what managers do.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2015

From @WallyBock The hardest thing for a manager to learn. Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO , on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore. Can You Manage Up? New Tools Needed for Managing Uncertainty via @INSEADKnowledge. Becoming an Enterprise Leader: The Seven Seismic Shifts by @watkinsmichael.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The other day I was listening to an interview with Henry Mintzberg, legend in management thought. Mintzberg said a plethora of things I am still processing but one thing in particular struck me. Mintzberg said it quickly and then moved on, but my mind won’t let go as quickly as he did. Perhaps Mintzberg is right.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 17, 2011

If you read just one management book this year, make it Managing. That’s the verdict from the first CMI Management Book of the Year event, which saw Henry Mintzberg’s 15th book beat off competition from 144 shortlisted titles to take the top prize.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

From the winning author of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2010, Henry Mintzberg's Management? Review by Andrew May FCMI for Professional Manager. It’s Not What You Think! You are not watching this post, click to start watching

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Management Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I confess to having a proclivity for essay collections when it comes to reading about management. Also, there’s the reality that many management books struggle to adequately fill the space between the book-covers, offering up their best in the introduction, the first chapter and the wrap-up chapter. Here are my thoughts on: Management?

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Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last year saw the launch of the competition with Henry Mintzberg author of Managing winning the coveted title CMI Management Book of the Year and cheque for £5,000. You are not watching this post, click to start watching

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Dear All, You may be interested to see what Andy Saunders has to say about the entries in CMI Management Book of the Year and its winner, Henry Mintzberg in this video on Youtube You are not watching this post, click to start watching

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

New managers , or those aspiring to manage a team, often are looking for a playbook to help them get started. And, let’s face it, seasoned managers often need a refresher on some of the basics. How I wish we had an entire day to talk about management and leadership. 4 Things Great Managers Do. 2) Energize.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 3, 2019

Nights this month, unplug from your mobile phone and both enjoy and learn from Henry Mintzberg ’s 42 former blog posts compiled into his new book, Bedtime Stories for Managers. Some of my favorite takeaways are: Managers are important to the extent that they help other people be important.

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Niagara Institute

AUGUST 15, 2023

As Henry Mintzberg, Canadian academic and author on business and management, put it, “Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.” While clearly, a lot goes into successful management, sometimes all you need to help you move forward is a quick tip or an editable template.

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LDRLB

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, strategy is not a large plan full of delineated steps developed and assigned by senior management but a series of little actions and decisions made by everyone at every level of an organization. Strategy learning mintzberg strategy surveyingstrategy'

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.” They also advise that “a strong culture is often all you need.”

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 24, 2022

Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers. The research and development manager or lead scientist will tend to favor the rigorous analysis of science.

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Coaching Ourselves

OCTOBER 12, 2021

CoachingOurselves was born out of the desire to change the practice of management. Here’s an excerpt from Henry Mintzberg’s blog and a link to the rest of the entry. CoachingOurselves is offering a virtual Free Public Event with Professor Mintzberg on October 28th. Species of Organizations. – The CoachingOurselves team.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I created the management sub-reddit many years ago. The management sub-reddit provides links to worthwhile management content and the members indicate those links they liked. People who believe they can manage everything often prove themselves capable of managing nothing. by Henry Mintzberg on his blog.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. Management still matters significantly. Why does management still matter? My personal crusade here is to bring management back onto an equal putting with leadership.

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Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This module is ideal for middle management teams in organizations that are serious about dealing with the impacts of climate change and being part of the solution. As our co-founder Henry Mintzberg has stated in his blog, the obvious theme on which to focus the efforts to rebalance society is climate change.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

To get our discussion going, our group reviewed some material on the various political games that get played in organizations based on work by Henry Mintzberg (author Managers Not MBA’s and Prof at McGill University). Whether you’re aware of it or not. Frankly, I never realized there were so many different games. Happy leading!

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Coaching Ourselves

MAY 30, 2022

Try out a 90-minute discussion guide with your team or create a program—we have almost 100 discussion guides written by experts in management and business including Professor Henry Mintzberg of McGill, Professor Linda Hill of Harvard, leadership coach and author Marshall Goldsmith, and many others.

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Coaching Ourselves

JUNE 30, 2022

Interestingly, the IDG framework is quite similar to one of the fundamental CoachingOurselves learning frameworks as outlined by CoachingOurselves founders Professors Mintzberg and Gosling in their Harvard Business Review article, “The Five Mindsets of a Manager”. Managing organizations: the analytic mind-set.

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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. There seem to be two key reasons.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. Denise cares about people.

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LDRLB

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, strategy is not a large plan full of delineated steps developed and assigned by senior management but a series of little actions and decisions made by everyone at every level of an organization. Like the prescriptive schools, the entrepreneurial school emphasizes the need for information, both internal and external.

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