Management? It's not what you think!

"Henry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker" a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guru Henry Mintzberg is one of today's best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he is always interesting and usually controversial and holds the management and strategy communities in thrall. Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold’em to the Greek tragedies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Bruce is the author is currently a professor of management at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. Joe Lampel began his career believing that strategy is the answer, but has recently concluded that it may be the answer to the wrong question. He first began to suspect this terrible truth during the long journey that produced the first edition of Strategy Safari. Joe was awarded a PhD in management by McGill University for good behaviour.  

Management? Think Again!

 

1) Management Mosaic

 

The Manager as Orchestra Conductor

Peter Drucker, Jan Carlson and Leonard Sayles

 

Management: Be careful what you think

Henry Mintzberg

  

What MANAGEMENT Says and What Managers Do

Albert Shapero

 

Management and Magic

Martin l. Gimpl and Stephen R. Dakin

 

2) Management of Meaning

 

Problems, problems, problems

Smullyan

 

Waffle Words

Lucy Kellaway

 

Mana-gems

 

PowerPoint is Evil

Edward Tufte

 

Planning as Public Relations

Henry Mintzberg

 

The Opposite of a Profound Truth is also True

R. Farson

 

 

Systematic Buzz Word Generator

Lew Gloin    

 

3) Misleading Management

 

There are no Leaders, There is only Leadership

Richard Farson

 

Conversations from a Corner Office

John Mackeytalks with Kai Ryssdal

 

A Star Executive Does Not Make a Company

John Kay

 

Rules for being a heroic leader

Henry Mintzberg

 

A Descent in the Dark

R.R. Reno

  

Leadership and Communityship

Henry Mintzberg

 

4) Myths of Managing

 

Outsourcing the Outsourcers

 

Spotting Management Fads

Danny Miller

 

Musings on Management

Henry Mintzberg

 

To Err is Human

Spyros G. Makridakis

 

CEOs: Some gamblers

Henry Mintzberg

  

5) Maxims of Managing

 

Laws and Rules from A to Z

Unattributed

 

Parkinson’s Law

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

 

Maxims in Need of a Makeover

Justin Ewers

 

Why Most Managers are Plagiarists

Lucy Kellaway

 

6)Masters of Managing?

  

Managers Not MBAs (excerpts)

Henry Mintzberg

 

Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse

Phillip Devies Broughton

 

Games Business Schools Play

Andrew J. Policano

  

 

7) Metamorphosing Management

 

“Change Management” is an Oxymoron

 Jim Clemmer

 

Senior Managers Aren’t Cooks, They’re Ingredients

David K. Hurst

 

Staying on track

 

Backing Into a Brilliant Strategy

Richard Pascale

 

A Parable of Modern Change

 

 

Crafting Strategy

Henry Mitnzberg

 

Wither our Wiki, Worldly, Wounded World

Jonathan Gosling

 

8) Managing Modestly

 

Yee gods, what do I do now?

Ian Hamilton

 

A Long Overdue Letter to the Board

Henry Mintzberg

 

Here’s an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas

William C. Taylor

 

Managing Quietly

Henry Mintzberg

 

Managing Without Managers

Ricardo Semler