Henry Mintzberg

Author of Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

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About the Author

Who better to write bedtime stories for managers than Henry Mintzberg of McGill University, purveyor of outrageous ideas that eventually become obvious? This is his twentieth book, certainly his most playful, and possibly his most serious.

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Image credit: public domain, photo taken at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, May 2005 by Andreas Seidl

Works by Henry Mintzberg

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners (1993) 238 copies

Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development (2004) 200 copies

Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations (1983) 130 copies

The Strategy Process: Concepts, Context, Cases (4th Edition) (1991) 127 copies

Managing (2009) 126 copies

Mintzberg on Management (1989) 100 copies

The Structuring of Organizations (1979) 84 copies

Strategy Bites Back: It Is A Lot More, And Less, Than You Ever Imagined... (2005) — Editor — 74 copies

The Nature of Managerial Work (1901) 64 copies

Simply Managing: What Managers Do and Can Do Better (2010) 41 copies

Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center (2015) 21 copies

Why I Hate Flying: Tales for the Tormented Traveler (2000) 20 copies

Power in and Around Organizations (1983) 20 copies

Tracking Strategies: Towards a General Theory of Strategy Formation (1992) 18 copies

Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management (2019) 16 copies

Readings in the Strategy Process (3rd Edition) (1998) 13 copies

Understanding Organizations...Finally!: Structure in Sevens (2023) 8 copies

Managing the Myths of Health Care: Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community (2017) 8 copies

Management? It's Not What You Think! (2010) 6 copies

Criando Organizações Eficazes. Estruturas em Cinco Configurações (2003) 5 copies

Renovacao Radical: Uma Estrategia Para Restaurar o Equilibrio e Salvar a Humanidade e o Planeta (2015) 5 copies

Rethinking Strategic Management: Sustainable Strategizing for Positive Impact (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics &… (2019) — Author — 5 copies

Managing essencial: A essência do premiado managing, para gerentes com pouco tempo (2014) 4 copies

Management não é o que você pensa 3 copies

The Canadian condition: Reflections of a "pure cotton" (1995) 2 copies

The Flying Circus: Tales of a Tormented Traveler (2005) 2 copies

Managing Publicly (Monographs of Canadian Public Administration, no. 25) (2000) 2 copies

Strategievorming : tien scholen 2 copies

El CEO más peligroso: Y otros cuentos para directivos (Conecta) (2019) 2 copies

Histoires du soir pour managers: 42 Histoires surprenantes pour reveiller votre management (2019) 2 copies

Liderazgo 2 copies

Wie ich lernte, das Fliegen zu hassen. Abgründige Erlebnisse über den Wolken. (German Edition) (2001) 1 copy

Histoires pour gestionnaires insomniaques: Ce que les vaches, les mauvaises herbes et les œufs brouillés peuvent nous… (2019) 1 copy

Comprendre les organisations... enfin !: 7 formes - 7 forces (2023) 1 copy

O processo da estratégia conceitos, contextos e casos selecionados (2007) 1 copy

Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work 1 copy

Strategievorming tien scholen (1994) 1 copy

The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps For Strategy [California Management Review; Fall 1987; 30, 1; ABI/INFORM Global, pg.… 1 copy

Manager - L'essentiel: Ce que font vraiment les managers... et ce qu'ils pourraient faire mieux (2014) 1 copy

Simply Managing: What Managers Do—and Can Do Better 1 copy

Simply Managingwhat Managers Do & Can Do (Financial Times Series Pitman) (2013) 1 copy

Ascensão e Queda do Planejamento Estratégico 1 copy

Histórias de Embalar para Gestores Como passar de chefe esperto a líder esperto (2020) 1 copy

Managing the myths of health care: bridging the separations between care, cure, control and community 1 copy

Henry Mintzberg in Conversation: The Cult of Management & the Culture of Management (2001) 1 copy

Tracking strategies 1 copy

The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg (1993-11-03) (1824) 1 copy

Die Mintzberg-Struktur Organisationen effektiver gestalten (1992) 1 copy

Dise�o organizacional 1 copy

Productivity Is Killing American Enterprise 1 copy

Des managers des vrais! Pas des MBA 1 copy

Managers Not MBAs (Volume 1 of 2) (Easyread Large Bold Edition): A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and… (2009) 1 copy

Structure Et Dynamique Des Organisations 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Mintzberg, Henry
Birthdate: 1939-09-02
Gender: male
Nationality: Canada
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Awards and honors: Molson Prize (2006)

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Managing by Henry Mintzberg

Really useful classification of managerial activities (especially the concepts of framing and preoccupations/occupations). Sounds real, mainly because based on real interviews all around the world.

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d.v. | 2 other reviews | May 16, 2023 |

The nature of managerial work by Henry Mintzberg

A milestone in managerial studies, a very rigorous research which explores the activities of a manager by comparing many academic and practical points of view.

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Rethinking Strategic Management: Sustainable… by Thomas Wunder

For those in organisational strategy and for those in ‘CSR’ this is a must read. Often sustainability academia, business leaders and consultants have tried to address strategy. This book is authored by strategists who write about sustainability (incl. CSR). It captures the ‘why’, ‘what and ‘how’ it is smart to consider incorporating sustainability and other exponential factors to upgrade strategy development to the benefit of more than only a few stakeholders. “Ask not what sustainability can do for your business. Ask ....”… (more)

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Eddu73 | Feb 24, 2020 |

Strategy bites back : it is a lot more, and less,… by Henry Mintzberg

I read this as pre-reading before studying Strategy with the Open University. It was very clear and easy to read, explained things ownderfully, made me laugh in places, and was genuinely useful in getting my head round what strategy actually is.

I'd certainly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand strategy, read this before trying anything else (and as a second reading I would go for [b:Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters|11721966|Good Strategy Bad Strategy The Difference and Why It Matters|Richard Rumelt|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1360570381s/11721966.jpg|16670227]).

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