How Women Leaders Have Transformed Management
In a recent New York Times column, 鈥淗ow to Get a Job at Google,鈥� Thomas Friedman interviews Laszlo Bock, the company鈥檚 senior vice president for people operations (which seems to be Google-speak for talent management). Bock notes that because constant innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, people who succeed in the company 鈥渢end to be those with a lot of soft skills: leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability, and loving to learn and re-learn.鈥�
Le prof Mintzberg persiste et signe
Voil脿 41 ans que le professeur Henry Mintzberg jette son regard critique sur les organisations, leurs strat茅gies et leurs leaders. Son 17e livre, sorti le 1er mars, est un fait un e-pamphlet, ou brochure 茅lectronique. Sous le titre Rebalancing Society, Mintzberg tourne cette fois son regard inquiet sur la soci茅t茅. Mais qu'est-ce qui trouble ainsi le sommeil du plus international des professeurs qu茅b茅cois de gestion ?
The Strange Psychology of Expectations
When Facebook announced its astounding $19bn takeover of 55-employee WhatsApp, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and other tech startup hubs around the world were shocked.
Real Trouble
Don't go talking "real world" with Henry Mintzberg. It's a silly term that drives him mad, especially when management skills are at stake.聽
"The word 'real world' is a red flag for me," says Mintzberg, 麻豆AV's John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies. "Real world is out there. You don't simulate a real world. We don't play business in our classroom."
Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 Un-MBA Management Program
Lili Hall (IMPM'13) came across the International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM) by chance. She had considered MBA programs before, but the standard options seemed too formulaic. 鈥淓very time I looked at the curriculum, I鈥檇 get sad,鈥� she says. As the founder and CEO of KNOCK, inc., a creative agency, Hall had already enjoyed a lot of professional success. She wasn鈥檛 looking to switch industries or climb the corporate ladder.
5 Ideas for Crafting a Manager
The concept of leadership is always a big one in the nonprofit sector, and the facts of a looming retirement binge, as well as changes in the landscape, make the development of top-notch managers more important.
In his book 鈥淪imply Managing鈥� Henry Mintzberg writes about efforts to help in the development of management in a variety of setting. He offers a look at the ideas that lie behind these efforts.聽
Why We Need to Rescue Liberal Arts Education for Prosperity
The recent economic downturn, Wall Street debacle and string of ethical and moral scandal surrounding a number of prominent business leaders has led some observers to question the value and focus of vocationally oriented, pragmatic education programs such as business education and, particularly the MBA. The importance of a Liberal Education is once again gaining some attention.
Mintzberg's Five Types of Organizational Structure
Henry Mintzberg聽graduated from 麻豆AV with a degree in mechanical engineering and holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a Cleghorn professor of management studies at 麻豆AV since 1968. His early books include "The Structuring of Organizations: A Synthesis of the Research," published in 1979, and "Structure in 5's: Designing Effective Organizations," published in 1983.
Paying Attention to Small Decisions Pays Off?
In continuing my coverage of the ideas of Jeroen De Flander in The Execution Shortcut, let me first introduce the problem of missing prioritization information. It describes a situation in which those responsible for implementing a strategy have to balance two contradictory strategy elements and still make the right decision. In reality, there are many such situations and each gets in the way of successful strategy execution.
Who Is the Most Influential Living Management Thinker?
The Thinkers50 2013 provides the answer. Described as the Oscars of Management Thinking, the global ranking is published every two years and is the essential guide to which thinkers and which ideas matter now - and which have been consigned to business history. Who gets the plaudits in 2013?
Why Analysis Is Not Enough And Passion Is So Important - A Story From Henry Mintzberg
In the Analytic module of our International Masters In Practicing Management and our Advanced Leadership Program for executives, my colleague Henry Mintzberg likes to use this story to show how analysis can get in the way of really understanding an organization and its purpose.
The IMPM Innovations & Teaching Approach
The International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) programme is 18 years old but continues to be seen as one the world鈥檚 most innovative senior management degree programmes. Leslie Breitner and Dora Koop explain how the programme has retained its freshness for so long.
May 3 - Elections in Canada; Fund Drive Interview with Robert McChesney
Henry Mintzberg, a Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 麻豆AV in Montreal discusses the potential change in Canada's social democracy. Listen to full interview: Background Briefing with Ian Masters
MBA Travellers Aim to Broaden Their Horizons
Over the past year, thousands of MBA students will have travelled overseas with the aim of ensuring that they graduate as well-rounded global business people. ... Henry Mintzberg, professor of management studies at Desautels Faculty of Management, 麻豆AV, who is renowned for his rejection of conventional MBA education, has strong views on the topic.
Run For The Hills: They Want To Send You On A Management Training Course!
Phil and I remember being younger managers in large multinationals (IBM for me) back in the 90鈥瞫, and in my case, the 80鈥瞫. We were sent to a variety of short training courses, and we honestly can鈥檛 say that we remember anything they tried to teach us. Except for one lesson. In fact, it was so powerful that we never forgot it.
