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Henry Mintzberg, who is a Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal joins Enterprise Radio. His latest book is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structuring in Sevens, and before that, Bedtime Stories for Managers.
This episode of Enterprise Radio is on association with the Author Channel.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Henry Mintzberg discuss the following:
- This is the most successful of your 21 books , first published in 1979. Why a revision now? OR What’s with the “finally” in the title?
- Sports as metaphors figure prominently in the book. What’s the difference between organizing to play hockey and football? Follow up: And what about restaurants? Fast food, gourmet dining, the local diner, catering?
- Everyone wants to know what’s the best way to organize. Can you tell us…finally?
- A chapter near the end is entitled “Organizations Outward Bound.” Can you explain?
- Picking up on another of your metaphors, how can we organize [this radio station/magazine/etc.] as a cow?
- Please explain your four basic forms of organizing: the programmed machine, the professional assembly, the project pioneer, and the personal enterprise.
- What about conglomerates, you have much to say about them?
- Please explain communityship.
- You write about organization design as playing Lego more than just putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Why? And what about this idea of paving the pathways to design the organization?
- Why are so many organizations in such a mess these days?
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, the winner of awards from the most prestigious practitioners and academic institutions in management (from the Harvard Business Review to the Academy of Management), and the recipient of 21 honorary degrees from around the world. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. His latest book is Understanding Organizations…Finally! – Structuring in Sevens (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Feb. 7, 2023), and before that, Bedtime Stories for Managers.
Website: https://mintzberg.org
Social Media Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mintzberg141
Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/henrymintzberg
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