Henry Mintzberg
I currently hold the Cleghorn Professorship of Management Studies at McGill University; the Desautels Faculty of Management. I've been an academic most of my working life. I devote myself largely to writing and research, over the years especially about managerial work, strategy formation, and forms of organizing. In recent years, I have shifted toward more general writing, including commentaries. In all, I have published about 170 articles, and 17 books.
Henry Mintzberg: Effective Organizations like Healthy Families
Effective Organizations like Healthy Families
Tolstoy began his novel Anna Karenina with the immortal words :
Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy...
Henry Mintzberg: The Epidemic of Managing without Soul
My daughter Lisa once left me a note in a shoe that read “Souls need fixing.” Little did she know…
A Tale of Two Nurses
When...
If You Can’t Measure It – You’d Better Manage It.
Wait, that’s not it. It’s supposed to be:
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”
This is sheer nonsense. If you believe it, get...
#AbusiveBossesToo
Sexual and racial abuse are finally getting the attention they deserve. Managerial abuse is not. It may be less acute, but it, too, causes...
Mintzberg & Mohammadi: Zooming ahead? Not so fast!
Co-authored with Hanieh Mohammadi, doctoral student in McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management
We are smitten with the latest videoconferencing technology much as a lover...
Letter from Henry Mintzberg: The Next Step Greta…
Letter from Henry Mintzberg to climate activist Greta Thunberg:
Dear Greta
Good for you. Thanks to your spirit, over a million youth have just marched for...
Henry Mintzberg: Strategic Thinking as “Seeing”
Maybe we think too much and see too little. What, then, does strategic thinking as seeing mean?
Let’s begin with what strategic thinking is not....
Need a Strategy? Let them Grow like Weeds in the Garden
Henry Mintzberg about the Need of a Strategy
Searching for a strategy? Here’s how to get one, according to just about every book and article...
Mintzberg: Please Welcome CSR 2.0
I address this especially to business executives, but as citizens of their societies and neighbors in their communities.
Why do we focus on the conditions...
Henry Mintzberg: Transformation from the Top? How about Engagement on the...
The company has a new chief, with 100 days to show the stock market some quick wins. Not the usual wins: transformation is the game. Hurry...
