Henry Mintzberg

Canada
Born on 2 Sep 1939
Author on Business and Management

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Planning, by its very nature, defines and preserves categories. Creativity, by its veiy nature, creates categories or re-arranges established ones.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
Strategic planning can neither provide creativity nor deal with it when it emerges by other means.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
The organization would have... an ideology. The perceptive reader visitor would sense it immediately.

The Structuring of Organisations (1979)
If the system does the thinking, the thought must be detached from the action, strategy from operations and ostensible thinkers from doers.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
Mold-breaking strategies grow initially like , weeds, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
Strategy is not the consequence of planning but the opposite, its starting point.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
Strategy making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)
The chief executive... like a juggler keeps a number of projects in the air: periodically one comes down, is given a new burst of energy, and is sent back into orbit.

'The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact,' Harvard Business Review (1975)
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.
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