A half century ago Peter Drucker put management on the map. Leadership has since pushed it off. Henry Mintzberg aims to restore management to its proper place: front and center. “We should be seeing managers as leaders.” Mintzberg writes, “and leadership as management practiced well.”
This landmark book draws on Mintzberg’s observations of twenty-nine managers, in business, government, health care, and the social sector, working in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. What he saw—the pressures, the action, the nuances, the blending—compelled him to describe managing as a practice, not a science or a profession, learned primarily through experience and rooted in context.
But context cannot be seen in the usual way. Factors such as national culture and level in hierarchy, even personal style, turn out to have less influence than we have traditionally thought. Mintzberg looks at how to deal with some of the inescapable conundrums of managing, such as, How can you get in deep when there is so much pressure to get things done? How can you manage it when you can’t reliably measure it?
This book is vintage Mintzberg: iconoclastic, irreverent, carefully researched, myth-breaking.
Managing
may be the most revealing book yet written about what managers do, how they do it, and how they can do it better.
Cuprins
Preface
A Note to the Reader
CHAPTER 1: MANAGING AHEAD
CHAPTER 2: DYNAMICS OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 3: A MODEL OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 4: THE UNTOLD VARIETIES OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 5: THE INESCAPABLE CONUNDRUMS OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 6: MANAGING EFFECTIVELY
APPENDIX: EIGHT DAYS OF MANAGING
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Despre autor
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at Mc Gill University in Montreal and the winner of awards from the most prestigious academic and practitioner institutions in management (Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management, Association of Management Consulting Firms, and others). He is the author of fifteen books, including Managers Not MBAs, Strategy Safari, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, and Mintzberg on Management, and is a founding partner of www.Coaching Ourselves.com. For more information on his activities, visit www.mintzberg.org.