79 Quotes by Henry Mintzberg

Corporations are social institutions. If they don’t serve society, they have no business existing.

We’re all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren’t too screwed up.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are – or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

To ‘turn around’ is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn’t have to return to airports.

Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness.