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Henry Mintzberg

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Reframing everything in sight. You can visit my websites: mintzberg.org RebalancingSociety.org.

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24.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Is Serendipity Really Serendipitous? Come Find Out! | Henry Mintzberg

Serendipity can be, not only playful, but consequential, in organizations that manage it playfully.

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26.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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News.iAsk.ca - AI-Powered Canadian News AI-powered Canadian news and analysis. Get the latest updates from across Canada and around the world.

For Canadians only. Americans, please cover your eyes.

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24.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Business has a convenient bottom line, called profit, which can easily be measured. What’s the bottom line in government, say for terrorism?
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16.09.2025 15:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The center’s not holding, it’s folding. How about rounding? | Henry Mintzberg

William Butler Yeats wrote famously that “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…” Accordingly, opinion writers, left and right, have been writing about the center holding or not. What center? Mostly it’s been folding, not holding.

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16.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In a project organization, expect the unexpected.

#ThinkingOnThursday #quote

05.09.2025 15:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Minute with Mintzberg #1: Shareholder Value vs Human Values
YouTube video by Henry Mintzberg Minute with Mintzberg #1: Shareholder Value vs Human Values

Shareholder value has nothing to do with human values, it's got nothing to do with decency, it's got nothing to do with anything but greed.
#management #leadership #video produced by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social
>>>>> youtu.be/jrlMfkwVDT0

01.09.2025 16:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
MwM30: SUSTAINABILITY in the Short Run
YouTube video by Henry Mintzberg MwM30: SUSTAINABILITY in the Short Run

We won’t get anywhere with climate change or any other long-term problems we are trying to address – until we achieve a balance.
This is an excerpt from "Rebalancing Society - A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg".
#video: >> youtu.be/cFrRRhMpcr8 << Produced by @brovkin.bsky.social

20.08.2025 00:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Henry Mintzberg’s Collection of Beaver Sculptures | LinkedIn A conversation between Henry Mintzberg, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Juha Huuskonen. Henry Mintzberg is a renowned Canadian management scholar, best known for his influential wo...

Beavers are nature’s sculptors. I’ve spent years collecting their work. On June 16, we launch a video and have a conversation about this unusual collection.
www.linkedin.com/events/henry...

05.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Henry Mintzberg’s Beaver Sculptures: A Guided Tour
YouTube video by Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg’s Beaver Sculptures: A Guided Tour

Beavers don’t strategize - but they certainly shape their environments. I’ve spent decades collecting the results

On June 16, I’ll share this collection in an online event. Details here:
www.linkedin.com/events/henry...

In the meantime, you are invited to watch this #video
youtu.be/3RQehKFXjQU

11.06.2025 16:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Henry Mintzberg’s Beaver Sculptures: A Guided Tour
YouTube video by Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg’s Beaver Sculptures: A Guided Tour

Beavers don’t strategize - but they certainly shape their environments. I’ve spent decades collecting the results

On June 16, I’ll share this collection in an online event. Details here:
www.linkedin.com/events/henry...

In the meantime, you are invited to watch this #video
youtu.be/3RQehKFXjQU

11.06.2025 16:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Henry Mintzberg’s Collection of Beaver Sculptures | LinkedIn A conversation between Henry Mintzberg, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Juha Huuskonen. Henry Mintzberg is a renowned Canadian management scholar, best known for his influential wo...

Beavers are nature’s sculptors. I’ve spent years collecting their work. On June 16, we launch a video and have a conversation about this unusual collection.
www.linkedin.com/events/henry...

05.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words.

#ThinkingOnThursday #quote

22.05.2025 19:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Sooner or later, every organization must expect the unexpected, no matter how stable its structure.

hashtag#ThinkingOnThursday hashtag#quote

09.05.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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I am not a mere customer of my government, thank you, as if I buy services at arm’s length. I am an engaged citizen of my country.
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05.05.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
MwM 45 - Experts Who Know Better Can Be Worse
YouTube video by Henry Mintzberg MwM 45 - Experts Who Know Better Can Be Worse

This New Minute is an excerpt from The Innovation Show with Aidan McCullen:
Rebalancing Society: Addressing Imbalances in Politics, Economy, and Community.

#MwM #video produced by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social
youtu.be/LJcx6j08TlY

22.04.2025 15:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lettre d'Henry Mintzberg: «Eh Canada, ton bras sait-il porter la paix?» LES IDÉES DES AFFAIRES. «Nous devrions chanter une version modifiée de l'hymne national.»

Lettre d’Henry Mintzberg: «Eh Canada, ton bras sait-il porter la paix?»
Via Les Affaires
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05.04.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lettre d'Henry Mintzberg: «Eh Canada, ton bras sait-il porter la paix?» LES IDÉES DES AFFAIRES. «Nous devrions chanter une version modifiée de l'hymne national.»

Lettre d’Henry Mintzberg: «Eh Canada, ton bras sait-il porter la paix?»
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02.04.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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Are we so obsessed with leadership because we get so little of it? Or, do we get so little of it because we are so obsessed with it?

#ThinkingOnThursday #quote

03.04.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Lettre d'Henry Mintzberg: «Eh Canada, ton bras sait-il porter la paix?» LES IDÉES DES AFFAIRES. «Nous devrions chanter une version modifiée de l'hymne national.»

Lettre d’Henry Mintzberg: «Eh Canada, ton bras sait-il porter la paix?»
Via @lesaffaires.bsky.social

www.lesaffaires.com/secteurs/pol...

02.04.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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“The Manager’s Job,” 50 Years Later “No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. The manager determines whether our social institutions will serve us well or whether they will squander our talents and resources.” Henry...

50 years! HBR checks in on my "Manager's Job" piece. Good managers DO more than just plan & organize! Still relevant? Read and share your thoughts. #management #leadership #Mintzberg #HBR hbr.org/2025/03/the-...

23.03.2025 17:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state,
but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.

15.03.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state,
but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.

15.03.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Organizations don’t have tops and bottoms.

#ThinkingOnThursday #quote

13.03.2025 17:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us for a special information session featuring IMPM - # 1 International Masters Program for Managers. Learn about this unique executive leadership program. The only program of its kind with modules at five leading universities in five different countries.
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13.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In 1996, several academics teamed up – and created the International Masters Program for Managers (impm.org) and the International Masters for Health Leadership
@McGillGCHM_IMHL

youtu.be/utdkkAD68aU <<<<
#video by Collectiver
@brovkin.bsky.social

02.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Minute with Mintzberg #6: I'm so glad I came back to Canada.
YouTube video by Henry Mintzberg Minute with Mintzberg #6: I'm so glad I came back to Canada.

Growing up, everything was the US. How true that was and how true it no longer is.

#video by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social
>>>>> youtu.be/XahmK-ynO8Q <<<<<

15.02.2025 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Management and leadership are two sides of the same coin. They work together in the larger realm of “communityship."
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09.02.2025 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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About this 51st state, really the 51st to 60th,
politically, more or less:

03.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Rise of Pipsqueak Canada | Henry Mintzberg Picture found long ago but don’t know the source. Would be pleased to give credit if someone knows who.

In 2021, I posted this blog. It seems appropriate to repeat it now, with no editing.

Read the full article to explore what’s next.

mintzberg.org/blog/pipsque...

02.02.2025 18:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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