Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and … - Henry Mintzberg

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Henry Mintzberg

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations. . . Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

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Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

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Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

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Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.

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Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

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Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

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