Henry Mintzberg Quotes About Strategy

Quotes about: Strategy

• Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Opposites, Planning, Strategy

  Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education

• Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Weed, Garden, Tomatoes

  Henry Mintzberg (2003). “The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases”, p.415, Pearson Education

• Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Sophisticated, Strategy, Social

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Strategy Bites Back ePub eBook”, p.74, Pearson UK

• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Perspective, Judgement, Intuition

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

• Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

  Henry Mintzberg

  Decision, Patterns, Strategy

• Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Strategy, Should, Implementing

• The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Real, Lying, Challenges

  Henry Mintzberg (2003). “The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases”, p.148, Pearson Education

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