Mintzberg Management Quotes & Sayings

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. — Henry Mintzberg

Sometimes it's just silent ... No sound at all.
'Does that scare you?'
Chad nods.
'Why?' asks his father.
'It's like something's waiting. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Life has so much to offer, live it up! — Aditi Chopra

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong. — Henry Mintzberg

Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard — C.B. Smith

Love is messy, painful and emotionally draining. It hardly seems worth it. — Alice Clayton

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

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business. — Henry Mintzberg

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of communityship. — Henry Mintzberg

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon. — Henry Mintzberg

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg

ANARCHISM: - The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary. — Emma Goldman

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Adrian Cronauer

All there is is this deep-in-my-stomach feeling of terror, and this fear that there is no really happy ending anymore. — Ava Dellaira

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg

Books are for nothing but to inspire — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management. — Henry Mintzberg

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank? — Patty Hearst

Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock ... — Ann Patchett