Henry Mintzberg Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Important, Speech, Information

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• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Fun, Airports, Flying

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• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Art, Crafts, Students

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

  Henry Mintzberg

  Thinking, Doe, Generations

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• Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

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  Technology, Community, Individualism

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• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Hands, Issues

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• If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Government, Community, Private Sector

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• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Business, Mba Programs, Practice

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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