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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. Aaron Dignan.

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Leadership: Balancing Art, Craft, and Science

Mike Cardus

It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers. Reference: Mintzberg, H. Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. Effective leadership requires all three. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it.

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What Strategists Can Learn from Architecture

Harvard Business Review

We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). An automobile company might have bought a supplier of its batteries, or created its own dealerships. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. Structuring in Sevens.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Yes, it can be self-serving. However, the reality is that politics is normal.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

As Henry Mintzberg noted in The Structuring of Organizations in 1979, “The words centralization and decentralization have been bandied about for as long as anyone has cared to write about organizations.” Different operating units often have a common need for which the solutions can be (nearly) identical (e.g.,