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Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
— Henry Mintzberg
Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.
— Ignatius Of Antioch
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of communityship.
— Henry Mintzberg
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
— Henry Mintzberg
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
— Henry Mintzberg
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
— Henry Mintzberg
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.
— Henry Mintzberg
Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.
— Deyth Banger
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
— Henry Mintzberg
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions
— Henry Mintzberg
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
— Henry Mintzberg
Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.
— Emil Cioran
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
— Henry Mintzberg
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
— Henry Mintzberg
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?
— Henry Mintzberg
When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people. — Henry Mintzberg
That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.
— Henry Mintzberg
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
— Henry Mintzberg
Does this boat go to Europe, France?
— Anita Loos
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
— Henry Mintzberg
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
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
— Henry Mintzberg
While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.
— Henry Mintzberg
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
— Henry Mintzberg
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.
— Henry Mintzberg
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
— Henry Mintzberg
Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.
— Henry Mintzberg
You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.
— Charles Stross
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
— Henry Mintzberg
Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.
— Henry Mintzberg
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.
— Henry Mintzberg
Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.
— Henry Mintzberg