Understanding Organizations--Finally! by Henry Mintzberg
The iconic Henry Mintzberg provides a crystal-clear map to the forms and forces that shape all human organizations, synthesizing his fifty years of research.We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really work. But where can we go to find out?
Welcome to Understanding Organizations . . . Finally! For half a century, Mintzberg has been observing organizations, advising them, engaging them, and escaping them. Here he offers a masterful update and revision of his 1983 classic, Structure in Fives.
Believing there is one best way to structure organizations is the worst way to do so. A better place to start is by recognizing different species of organizations. Mintzberg identifies seven-personal enterprises, programmed machines, professional assemblies, project pioneers, and others. He explores these forms and the seven forces that drive them toward hybrids and across their life cycles.
You will find no better guide to the care and feeding of these extraordinarily varied and vital creatures than this book.
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 | 9781523000050 |
| ISBN 10 | 1523000058 |
| Title | Understanding Organizations--Finally! |
| Author | Henry Mintzberg |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Year published | 2023-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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