Henry Mintzberg
@mintzberg
Reframing everything in sight. You can visit my websites: mintzberg.org RebalancingSociety.org.
I have spent a lifetime trying to bust every management myth in sight, for the sake of insight. My upcoming book, "Bust Those Management Myths," is a collection of corrections. To claim your early e-copy and an invite to my private webinar, scan the QR code below! 👇
Growing up, everything was the US. How true that was and how true it no longer is. #Canada #CanadaDay #video produced by @brovkin.bsky.social t.co/IHd8azCFW1
Everyone looks for purpose in what Trump does. Every morning he asks himself: "What will I do to get the headlines today: Bomb Iran? Raise tariffs? Threaten Greenland?"
The wealthy calling for taxes on the super-wealthy is a distraction. Ultimately, this has to be about putting powerful private interests back in their place, namely the marketplace – out of the public place. #RebalsncingSociety #video #quote
Davos has always been the place where the people who spend 51 weeks a year creating the problems spend the 52nd pretending to solve them. Except now the pretense is over.
Davos has always been the place where the people who spend 51 weeks a year creating the problems spend the 52nd pretending to solve them. Except now the pretense is over. 1/3
Perhaps nothing has broken the spirit of our professional services, especially in schools and healthcare, more than the imposition of technocratic fixes. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote
Business has a convenient bottom line, called profit, which can easily be measured. What’s the bottom line in government, say for terrorism? mintzberg.org/blog/busines...
In a project organization, expect the unexpected. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote
Sooner or later, every organization must expect the unexpected, no matter how stable its structure. hashtag#ThinkingOnThursday hashtag#quote
Are we so obsessed with leadership because we get so little of it? Or, do we get so little of it because we are so obsessed with it? #ThinkingOnThursday #quote
Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state, but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.
Organizations don’t have tops and bottoms. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote
In 1996, several academics teamed up – and created the International Masters Program for Managers (impm.org) and the International Masters for Health Leadership @McGillGCHM_IMHL youtu.be/utdkkAD68aU <<<< #video by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social
Management and leadership are two sides of the same coin. They work together in the larger realm of “communityship." #quote
About this 51st state, really the 51st to 60th, politically, more or less:
Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources. #quote
My daughter Lisa once left me a note in a shoe that read “Souls need fixing.” Little did she know… mintzberg.org/blog/soul
Dear Members of the Board I am writing to you with a proposal that may seem radical, but is in fact conservative. mintzberg.org/blog/a-ceo-l...
Maybe we think too much and see too little. What, then, does strategic seeing mean? Most people would agree that strategic thinking means seeing ahead. But we can’t see ahead unless we see behind … #management #strategy mintzberg.org//blog/strate...
In the natural world, compare a troop of monkeys with the alpha male at its head, a flock of geese flying in formation, ants scurrying around doing their own thing together, and a family of beavers building a dam. Four fundamental forms of organizing. t.co/yUrmBebp6a
Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote
So how do we make decisions? That’s easy. First we diagnose, next we design, then we decide, and finally we do (carry that choice into action). In other words, we think in order to act: I call this thinking first. #management #strategy mintzberg.org/blog/decisio...
What will happen when his policies to serve the wealthy hit the fan—for example, tariffs that could revive inflation and gutted public services on which the beleaguered depend? mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
A little lesson in 51st state politics for DT mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
A little lesson in 51st state politics for DT mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
The win-win liberal democracy that was America has been replaced by a zero-sum America driven by the insatiable greed of the hyper-wealthy. mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
Twice before, in the 1860s and the 1930s, a divided America was saved from itself, first by a Republican president and then by a Democratic one. Both were statesmen who did what was right for the disadvantaged of America. mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...