Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.
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 MintzbergAn enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
Henry MintzbergThe great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.
Henry Mintzberg