Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
Henry MintzbergEveryone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.
Henry MintzbergNo job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.
Henry MintzbergYou 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