{"id":583,"date":"2008-12-17T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/averral.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2008-12-17T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:37:48","slug":"henry-mintzberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.averral.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/henry-mintzberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Mintzberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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is the most down to earth professor I ever read across. His concepts are very real, and he is quite blunt with the truth, and I like how he brings across the most realistic things and fans out those hard wired theorists.<\/p>\n

I like this quote:<\/p>\n

“I have come to suspect that Harvard’s great success may be business’s great failure. In other words, the real danger of the design school may be in providing a seductive model whose superficial “rationality” in the classroom can so easily get promoted into the executive suite.”<\/p>\n

“Maybe that is all too true: in formulating detached, easy strategies in case study discussions, later in executive meetings, which are not meant to be implemented, and later cannot be, and in giving all those “whiz kids” a head start down the “fast track.” They can certainly tell a “probable ‘non-starter” from a “winner,”.<\/p>\n

Mintzberg, Henry (1996)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too bad I can’t put that in my assignment, haha.<\/p>\n

He makes me think that business school is crappy make believe institution that can emulate what happens in the real world, when in fact it is not! I am glad he invented the term emergent strategies that are not foreseeable in the uncertain future. I don’t think much of what I have learnt in school applies to what I do in my business anyway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

is the most down to earth professor I ever read across. His concepts are very real, and he is quite blunt with the truth, and I like how he brings across the most realistic things and fans out those hard wired theorists. I like this quote: “I have come to suspect that Harvard’s great success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n