The 58+ Henry Mintzberg Quotes

It Is Time To Recognize Conventional Mba Programs For What They Are - Or Else To Close Them Down. They Are Specialized Training In The Functions Of Business, Not General Educating In The Practice Of Management.

That Is The Trouble With Flying: We Always Have To Return To Airports. Thank Of How Much Fun Flying Would Be If We Didn't Have To Return To Airports.

If The Private Sectors Are About Markets And The Public Sectors Are About Governments, Then The Plural Sector Is About Communities.

We Find That The Manager, Particularly At Senior Levels, Is Overburdened With Work. With The Increasing Complexity Of Modern Organizations And Their Problems, He Is Destined To Become More So. He Is Driven To Brevity, Fragmentation, And Superficiality In His Tasks, Yet He Cannot Easily Delegate Them Because Of The Nature Of His Information.

An Unsuccessful Manager Blames Failure On His Obligations; The Effective Manager Turns Them To His Own Advantage. A Speech Is A Chance To Lobby...a Visit To An Important Customer A Chance To Extract Trade Information.

My Feeling About Executive Bonuses Is That Any Candidate For A Chief Executive Job Who Even Raises The Issue Of Bonuses Should Be Dismissed Out Of Hand.

Technologies Tend To Undermine Community And Encourage Individualism.

Anecdotal Data Is Not Incidental To Theory Development At All, But An Essential Part Of It.

Why Does Every Generation Have To Think That He Lives In The Period With The Greatest Turbulence?

Effective Managing Therefore Happens Where Art , Craft, And Science Meet. But In A Classroom Of Students Without Managerial Experience, These Have No Place To Meet There Is Nothing To Do.

To 'turn Around' Is To End Up Facing The Same Way. Maybe That Is The Problem, All The Turning Organizations Around.

No Generalizing Beyond The Data, No Theory. No Theory, No Insight. And If No Insight, Why Do Research.