Henry Mintzberg Quotes About Management

• The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Somewhere Else, Ideas, Marketing

• An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

  Henry Mintzberg

  Learning, Knowledge, Community

• Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

  Henry Mintzberg

  Business, Corporations, Management

• Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

  Henry Mintzberg

  Common Sense, Risk, Management

• Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

  Henry Mintzberg

  Change, Art, Top Management

• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Perspective, Judgement, Intuition

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

• Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Skills, Two, Working Together

• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Art, Creativity, Practice

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

• It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Business, Mba Programs, Practice

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Practice, People, Way

• 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.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Running, People, Democracy

  "MBA: Mostly bloody awful". "Background Briefing" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. March 29, 2009.

• 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

  School, Management, Great Men

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