Quotes by Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

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Leader

Two

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of “human resources”.

Community

Knowledge

Learning

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

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Seems

Uncertainty

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.

Important

Information

Speech

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

Data

Development

Essentials

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Fighting

Fire

Mean

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Community

People

Working Together

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Corporations

Economic

Social

Corporations are social institutions. If they don’t serve society, they have no business existing

Business

Corporations

Management

Data don’t generate theory – only researchers do that.

Data

Researchers

Theory

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Quotes by Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of “human resources”.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

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.

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don’t serve society, they have no business existing

Data don’t generate theory – only researchers do that.

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