Henry Mintzberg quotes - page 3

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school? (Henry Mintzberg)
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. View quote
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What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage. View quote
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The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous. View quote
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What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business. View quote
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Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have. View quote
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No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research. View quote
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Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)