Bedtime Stories for Managers by Henry Mintzberg

Bedtime Stories for Managers by Henry Mintzberg

In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and onto solid ground.

If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management.

The moral here is this: managers need to leave their castles and find out what's actually going on in their kingdoms. And like real bedtime stories, these essays have metaphors galore. So prepare to grow strategies like weeds and organize like a cow. Discover the maestro myth of managing, find the soft underbelly of hard data, and learn why downsizing is bloodletting and your board should be a bee. Mintzberg writes, Just try not to be outraged by anything you read, because some of my most outrageous ideas turn out to be my best. They just take a while to become obvious.

Henry Mintzberg is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University, as well as a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the Universite d'Aix-Marseille, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal, the London Business School, and INSEAD. He has fifteen honorary degrees from colleges all around the world and is the author of seventeen books and more than 150 papers.

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ISBN 13	9781523098781
ISBN 10	1523098783
Title	Bedtime Stories for Managers
Author	Henry Mintzberg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Year published	2019-02-05
Number of pages	192
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