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- Shifting Matrix Management: A Model For Multi-Agent Cooperation
- Shifting Matrix Management SMM is a model of agent coordination inspired by Mintzberg's model of organizational structures. Mintzberg's model permits many temporary lines of authority, reflecting the multiple and shifting functions of a flexible workforce. In order to apply these ideas to agent cooperation, a six-stage framework has been devised....
- White papers 2003-08-22
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- Mintzberg: Blame MBAs for the Crisis of Management
- The MBA bashers are out in force this week. The current crisis is not a financial one, it's a crisis of management, says Henry Mintzberg in the Globe and Mail. Short-termism and ignorance among executives and employees contributed to what Mintzberg calls a "monumental failure of management",...
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Is Shareholder Value a Dumb Idea? Experts Debate
- The Find: Jack Welch made waves when he called shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world;" now two eminent business professors go head to head over whether he was right. The Source: Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management at McGill University vs. Colin Mayer, dean of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Five Hard Truths About the MBA
- If you're counting on an MBA to help advance your career, new evidence might make you think twice. Hard...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Business programs draw growing scorn.
- Byline: Luke Slattery Sep 18, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Critics are questioning the value of the Master of Business Administration MBA degree to modern...
- Research articles 2005-09-18
- Rethinking the MBA | HBR IdeaCast
- Business schools have created an epidemic of ill-prepared young managers who have unjustified confidence in the real business world, argues Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in this podcast. He says leaders aren't created in a classroom, and the entire approach to business education needs to be turned upside down. ...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- The World Needs More $500 Trash Cans
- Vipp trash cans -- excuse me, bins -- can sell upwards of $500. Told of this fact, renowned business management author and scholar Henry Mintzberg reportedly replied: "A world in which people spend $500 on a trash can is not one I want to live in. There...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- 10 Underrated Business Books
- They are hardly traditional, but by challenging conventional wisdom, these books explain the big ideas that are essential to business success. Economics ...
- Articles 2007-08-24
- Building Resources Strengths And Organizational Capabilities
- This presentation highlights upon building resources strengths and organizational capabilities. To build a capable organization one must gather a strong management team, recruit and develop the employees, identify strategy-critical activities, outsource non-critical activities etc. In this presentation, various types of structures have been identified. Some of these are Williamson's Structures,...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- An Overview of Strategy Development Models and the Ward-Rivani Model
- With publications in the field of strategy now in the thousands it is difficult to get an overall picture of how to classify and appreciate strategy tools and models. Mintzberg et al. have developed schools of thought to help alleviate and categorise this problem but this approach lacks a comparison...
- White papers 2005-06-07
- 10 Underrated Business Books
- 10 Underrated Business BooksYou've convicned me to re-readGot an old copy of 'how to influence...' I haven't looked at for years, you've convinced me to have another look!RE: 10 Underrated Business Books"Competing on Analytics" by Thomas Davenport has helped me help senior management see the value in number-crunching.RE: 10 Underrated...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- Third-generation management development: managers are not created in a classroom, but practicing managers in a classroom can step back from work pressures and learn profoundly from their own experience. The International Master's Program in Practicing Man
- Managers can't be created in a classroom. Instead they should be engaged actively in their learning, which means it should relate to their personal experience. Unfortunately, most degree programs for such people rely on the first generation of other people's experience and the second generation of artificial experience, while mostly...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- The MBA Menace
- This spring, more than 100,000 men and women in the United States--and many more overseas--will graduate with a master's degree in business administration. Management theorist and critic Henry Mintzberg has a few words for them. Dear new MBA: Congratulations! You have a sparkling new degree, highly prized in this...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Time for Design
- Defining the attributes common to all great designs, Jeanne Liedtka and Henry Mintzberg offer four case studies as the gateway to understanding the nexus of design and business. Their stories present managers with contrasting visions and methodologies. They also illustrate the creative tensions related to who designs, how designing happens,...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work.
- H. Mintzberg and L. Van Der Heyden. 1999. Harvard business review (September-October):87-95. "Traditional organizational charts, with their neat boxes, tell us little about the way companies work. Now there's the organigraph, which gives a more meaningful picture of the organization and helps companies...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Ready, fire, aim
- IF SOMETHING SEEMS WRONG with that sequence, it's because the chump who coined it didn't believe in developing a strategy or even understand the process. A business strategist, Henry Mintzberg (What? You never heard of him? He's published 10 books and about 120 articles. All that and a Ph.D. from...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- The Death of the Virtual Office
- In a global economy, workers can't be tethered to their desks. Organizations must be designed to provide staffers with maximum freedom to work where they are most productive. And telecommuting must be encouraged to promote family balance and a healthier environment. Yes, the virtual office seemed very...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- MBAs Pledge to Produce Corporate Citizens
- Management education took a particular bashing last year, from Philip Delves Broughton's much-publicised book on Harvard's MBA output last year to Henry Mintzberg's more expected attack on traditional courses. So Matthew Stewart's criticism isn't exactly out of the blue. But are b-schools listening? Jeanette...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
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