Mintzberg's musings on management's misrule

Abstract

Describes Mintzberg's ten points on management, which he delivered in the World Economic Forum in 1995, in just tem minutes! Details organizations as circles with outer people connected to the world and inner people disconnected from it, and goes on to explain these in full. Looks also at CEOs and leaders and debunks these mercilessly. Goes on to discuss fads and fashions and MBAs and declares that many MBA programmes are based on the belief that managers can be created in classrooms, whereas many programmes only provide technical training for specialist jobs that are not management.

Citation

Kippenberger, T. (1997), "Mintzberg's musings on management's misrule", The Antidote, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 18-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006334