Management? It's not what you think!, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (July 9, 2013) © 2013

  • Henry Mintzberg McGill University
  • Joseph B. Lampel City University, London
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"Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys." The Observer

Tied up in knots by KPIs? Confused by core competencies? Management doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, it shouldn’t be!

One of today’ best-known and most controversial thinkers on management has joined forces with other leading business figures to provide a thought-provoking mix of writing on management. The cutting edge views depicted in this book are controversially the opposite of what is often held up as the truth in management.

Management? Its Not What you Think! brings readers an unusual mix of perspectives to help stimulate more creative management thinking and more enjoyable, challenging and more productive ways to lead their teams. This is a book readers can dip into, a book they can savour, a book that won’t fail to get them reflecting on what management really is…

 

Table of contents

Management? Think Again!

 

1) Management Mosaic

 

The Manager as Orchestra Conductor

Peter Drucker, Jan Carlson and Leonard Sayles

 

Management: Be careful what you think

Henry Mintzberg

  

What MANAGEMENT Says and What Managers Do

Albert Shapero

 

Management and Magic

Martin l. Gimpl and Stephen R. Dakin

 

2) Management of Meaning

 

Problems, problems, problems

Smullyan

 

Waffle Words

Lucy Kellaway

 

Mana-gems

 

PowerPoint is Evil

Edward Tufte

 

Planning as Public Relations

Henry Mintzberg

 

The Opposite of a Profound Truth is also True

R. Farson

 

 

Systematic Buzz Word Generator

Lew Gloin    

 

3) Misleading Management

 

There are no Leaders, There is only Leadership

Richard Farson

 

Conversations from a Corner Office

John Mackeytalks with Kai Ryssdal

 

A Star Executive Does Not Make a Company

John Kay

 

Rules for being a heroic leader

Henry Mintzberg

 

A Descent in the Dark

R.R. Reno

  

Leadership and Communityship

Henry Mintzberg

 

4) Myths of Managing

 

Outsourcing the Outsourcers

 

Spotting Management Fads

Danny Miller

 

Musings on Management

Henry Mintzberg

 

To Err is Human

Spyros G. Makridakis

 

CEOs: Some gamblers

Henry Mintzberg

  

5) Maxims of Managing

 

Laws and Rules from A to Z

Unattributed

 

Parkinson’s Law

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

 

Maxims in Need of a Makeover

Justin Ewers

 

Why Most Managers are Plagiarists

Lucy Kellaway

 

6)Masters of Managing?

  

Managers Not MBAs (excerpts)

Henry Mintzberg

 

Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse

Phillip Devies Broughton

 

Games Business Schools Play

Andrew J. Policano

  

 

7) Metamorphosing Management

 

“Change Management” is an Oxymoron

 Jim Clemmer

 

Senior Managers Aren’t Cooks, They’re Ingredients

David K. Hurst

 

Staying on track

 

Backing Into a Brilliant Strategy

Richard Pascale

 

A Parable of Modern Change

 

 

Crafting Strategy

Henry Mitnzberg

 

Wither our Wiki, Worldly, Wounded World

Jonathan Gosling

 

8) Managing Modestly

 

Yee gods, what do I do now?

Ian Hamilton

 

A Long Overdue Letter to the Board

Henry Mintzberg

 

Here’s an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas

William C. Taylor

 

Managing Quietly

Henry Mintzberg

 

Managing Without Managers

Ricardo Semler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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