Top 25 Quotes by Henry Mintzberg of 58 - Page 3

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.

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

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

Henry Mintzberg

Thinking, Doe, Generations

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Henry Mintzberg

Technology, Community, Individualism

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.

Henry Mintzberg

Senior, Organization, Tasks

"The structuring of organizations: A synthesis of the research". Book by Henry Mintzberg, 1979.

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

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

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

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