Henry Mintzberg

The Essence of Managing Henry Mintzberg appreciates that managers are busy people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and distilled its essence into a lean 176 pages of text. The essence of the book remains the same: what Mintzberg learned from observing twenty-nine managers in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. Simply Managing considers the intense dynamics of this job as well as its inescapable...

If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes-heretical reflections on management. The moral here is this: managers...

"Synthesizing 60 years of intense research into organizational design and theory, the iconic Henry Mintzberg provides an elegant, plain-English map to the forces that shape all human organizations"--

In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful - and controversial - recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some science (analysis). Because conventional MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people...

Henry Mintzberg, profesor especializado en gestión de empresas, ha desarrollado a lo largo de su trayectoria tesis alternativas e innovadoras que han sido reconocidas con multitud de premios. Este libro es otro ejemplo de ese espíritu crítico, un trabajo que pretende aportar una profunda reflexión sobre la necesidad de un equilibrio entre lo público, lo privado y lo plural. Hace más de dos décadas, a partir de la caída del comunismo...