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8 unusual facts about Henry Mintzberg


Charles Handy

When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark their 50th Anniversary they asked Handy, Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg to write special articles.

NHH-Symposium

Since then the conference has had many well-known lecturers, like Henry Mintzberg, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Michael Porter, Henry Kissinger and Samuel DiPiazza.

Richard Normann

In the introduction to Reframing Business, Henry Mintzberg cites Normann as a "significant scholar", "using the consulting opportunity to advance general scholarship, namely our understanding of how this world works".

Strategic lenses

Many proponents of the view of Strategy As Experience, such as Henry Mintzberg would argue that the design lens is often inaccurate as top level executives are too distant from daily developments of the organisation.

Strategic urban planning

Strategic planning is a technique that has been applied to many facets of human activity; we have only to mention Sun Tzu, Arthur Thomson or Henry Mintzberg; however, the application of strategic planning to urban contexts, or cities, regions and other metropolitan areas is a relatively recent development whose beginnings were eminently practical and artistical: a mixture of thought, techniques and art or expertise.

Strategy Safari

Strategy Safari (FT Prentice Hall, 2002), subtitled "A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management" by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel is an overview of the full field of academic and business studies of strategy, based on a previous lecture series by Mintzberg.

Henry Mintzberg was previously known primarily for his advocacy of Emergent Strategy, and, subsequently, for his development of the Configuration School of strategy.

Workplace democracy

Henry Mintzberg, Peter Drucker and Donella Meadows were three very notable theorists addressing these concerns in the 1980s.



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