Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, vooraanstaand pionier op het gebied van management en organisaties
Meer over Henry MintzbergBedtime Stories for Managers
Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management
Paperback Engels 2019 1e druk 9781523098781Samenvatting
If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management.
The moral here is this: managers need to leave their castles and find out what's actually going on in their kingdoms. And like real bedtime stories, these essays have metaphors galore. So prepare to grow strategies like weeds and organize like a cow. Discover the maestro myth of managing, find the soft underbelly of hard data, and learn why downsizing is bloodletting and your board should be a bee. Mintzberg writes, “Just try not to be outraged by anything you read, because some of my most outrageous ideas turn out to be my best. They just take a while to become obvious.”
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Interviews en artikelen (1)
Over Henry Mintzberg
Inhoudsopgave
About This Storyteller / The Tooth Fairies
ONE: Stories of Managing 7
Managing Scrambled Eggs / The Maestro Myth
of Managing / Managing to Lead / Selecting the
Flawed Manager / The Epidemic of Managing
without Soul / Managing in the Age of the
Internet / Decision-Making: It’s Not What You
Think / Growing Strategies Like Weeds in a Garden
TWO: Stories of Organizing 37
Organizing Like a Cow / Communityship beyond
Leadership / Networks Are Not Communities /
Transformation from the Top? Or Engagement on
the Ground? / Species of Organizations / Why
Do We Say “Top Management” but never “bottom
management”? / Enough of Silos? How about
Slabs? / Manageable and Unmanageable
Managing / The Board as Bee
THREE: Stories of Analyzing 73
Analyst: Analyze Thyself / Ye Gods: An Efficient
Orchestra! / What Could Possibly Be Wrong with
“Efficiency”? Plenty. / The Soft Underbelly of “Hard
Data” / The Tricky Task of Measuring Managing /
Evidence and Experience in Management, Medicine,
and More / How National Happiness became gross
FOUR: Stories about Development 97
Jack’s Turn / MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling
Evidence / Engage Managers Beyond
Administration (“emba”) / Don’t Just Sit There .. .
FIVE: Stories in Context 119
Managing Family Business / Global? How about
Worldly? / Who Can Possibly Manage a Hospital? /
Managing Government, Governing Management
SIX: Stories about Responsibility 137
A CEO’s Letter to the Board—long overdue /
“Downsizing” as Twenty-First-Century
Bloodletting / Productive and Destructive
Productivity / The Scandal That Is a Syndrome /
Please Welcome CSR 2.0
SEVEN: Stories for Tomorrow 155
The Extraordinary Power of Ordinary Creativity /
Customer Service or serving customers? / Enough
of MORE: Better Is Better / Be Good: The Best Is Too
Low a Standard / Rise and Shine!
Notes 175
Index 185
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan