Henry Mintzberg
@mintzberg.bsky.social
Reframing everything in sight.
You can visit my websites: mintzberg.org RebalancingSociety.org.
You can visit my websites: mintzberg.org RebalancingSociety.org.
Perhaps nothing has broken the spirit of our professional services, especially in schools and healthcare, more than the imposition of technocratic fixes.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Perhaps nothing has broken the spirit of our professional services, especially in schools and healthcare, more than the imposition of technocratic fixes.
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#ThinkingOnThursday #quote
Business has a convenient bottom line, called profit, which can easily be measured. What’s the bottom line in government, say for terrorism?
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September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Business has a convenient bottom line, called profit, which can easily be measured. What’s the bottom line in government, say for terrorism?
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September 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words.
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Sooner or later, every organization must expect the unexpected, no matter how stable its structure.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Sooner or later, every organization must expect the unexpected, no matter how stable its structure.
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I am not a mere customer of my government, thank you, as if I buy services at arm’s length. I am an engaged citizen of my country.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I am not a mere customer of my government, thank you, as if I buy services at arm’s length. I am an engaged citizen of my country.
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Are we so obsessed with leadership because we get so little of it? Or, do we get so little of it because we are so obsessed with it?
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April 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Are we so obsessed with leadership because we get so little of it? Or, do we get so little of it because we are so obsessed with it?
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Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state,
but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.
but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.
March 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state,
but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.
but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In 1996, several academics teamed up – and created the International Masters Program for Managers (impm.org) and the International Masters for Health Leadership
@McGillGCHM_IMHL
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March 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In 1996, several academics teamed up – and created the International Masters Program for Managers (impm.org) and the International Masters for Health Leadership
@McGillGCHM_IMHL
youtu.be/utdkkAD68aU <<<<
#video by Collectiver
@brovkin.bsky.social
@McGillGCHM_IMHL
youtu.be/utdkkAD68aU <<<<
#video by Collectiver
@brovkin.bsky.social
About this 51st state, really the 51st to 60th,
politically, more or less:
politically, more or less:
February 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
About this 51st state, really the 51st to 60th,
politically, more or less:
politically, more or less:
February 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My daughter Lisa once left me a note in a shoe that read “Souls need fixing.” Little did she know…
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mintzberg.org/blog/soul
February 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My daughter Lisa once left me a note in a shoe that read “Souls need fixing.” Little did she know…
mintzberg.org/blog/soul
mintzberg.org/blog/soul
Dear Members of the Board
I am writing to you with a proposal that may seem radical, but is in fact conservative.
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I am writing to you with a proposal that may seem radical, but is in fact conservative.
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January 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Dear Members of the Board
I am writing to you with a proposal that may seem radical, but is in fact conservative.
mintzberg.org/blog/a-ceo-l...
I am writing to you with a proposal that may seem radical, but is in fact conservative.
mintzberg.org/blog/a-ceo-l...
Maybe we think too much and see too little. What, then, does strategic seeing mean?
Most people would agree that strategic thinking means seeing ahead.
But we can’t see ahead unless we see behind … #management #strategy
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Most people would agree that strategic thinking means seeing ahead.
But we can’t see ahead unless we see behind … #management #strategy
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January 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Maybe we think too much and see too little. What, then, does strategic seeing mean?
Most people would agree that strategic thinking means seeing ahead.
But we can’t see ahead unless we see behind … #management #strategy
mintzberg.org//blog/strate...
Most people would agree that strategic thinking means seeing ahead.
But we can’t see ahead unless we see behind … #management #strategy
mintzberg.org//blog/strate...
In the natural world, compare a troop of monkeys with the alpha male at its head, a flock of geese flying in formation, ants scurrying around doing their own thing together, and a family of beavers building a dam. Four fundamental forms of organizing.
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January 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In the natural world, compare a troop of monkeys with the alpha male at its head, a flock of geese flying in formation, ants scurrying around doing their own thing together, and a family of beavers building a dam. Four fundamental forms of organizing.
t.co/yUrmBebp6a
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January 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So how do we make decisions? That’s easy. First we diagnose, next we design, then we decide, and finally we do (carry that choice into action). In other words, we think in order to act: I call this thinking first.
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#management #strategy
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January 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So how do we make decisions? That’s easy. First we diagnose, next we design, then we decide, and finally we do (carry that choice into action). In other words, we think in order to act: I call this thinking first.
#management #strategy
mintzberg.org/blog/decisio...
#management #strategy
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What will happen when his policies to serve the wealthy hit the fan—for example, tariffs that could revive inflation and gutted public services on which the beleaguered depend?
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January 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
What will happen when his policies to serve the wealthy hit the fan—for example, tariffs that could revive inflation and gutted public services on which the beleaguered depend?
mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
January 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
January 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The win-win liberal democracy that was America has been replaced by a zero-sum America driven by the insatiable greed of the hyper-wealthy.
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January 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The win-win liberal democracy that was America has been replaced by a zero-sum America driven by the insatiable greed of the hyper-wealthy.
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Twice before, in the 1860s and the 1930s, a divided America was saved from itself, first by a Republican president and then by a Democratic one. Both were statesmen who did what was right for the disadvantaged of America.
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January 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Twice before, in the 1860s and the 1930s, a divided America was saved from itself, first by a Republican president and then by a Democratic one. Both were statesmen who did what was right for the disadvantaged of America.
mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...
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