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Bedtime Stories for Managers

Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management

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In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and onto solid ground."Enough of heroic leadership, it's time for engaging management!" is the rallying cry from management and leadership giant Henry Mintzberg. He establishes this theme in the first story in the book, about the CEO of a failing airline who always flew comfortably in ... Read more

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Completing Capitalism

Heal Business to Heal the World

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Milton Friedman's "financial capitalism" business model, which focuses exclusively on maximizing returns to shareholders, has caused tremendous harm to people, planet, and even profits, argue Mars, Inc., executives Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub. They advocate a detailed, field-tested alternative that takes a broader view and enables businesses to do well while doing good.For the past fifty years, the ... Read more

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Milton Friedman's "financial capitalism" business model, which focuses exclusively on maximizing returns to shareholders, has caused tremendous harm to people, planet, and even profits, argue Mars, Inc., executives Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub. They advocate a detailed, field-tested alternative that takes a broader view and enables businesses to do well while doing good.For the past fifty years, the
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Managing the Myths of Health Care

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Management giant Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to health care, arguing that many of the massive issues facing health care stem from the fact that it is not a cohesive system. To heal itself, health care must become less distant and opaque and more engaging and collaborative.Mintzberg begins in part 1 by confronting myths about health care, including the following:- We have a system of health ... Read more

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Management giant Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to health care, arguing that many of the massive issues facing health care stem from the fact that it is not a cohesive system. To heal itself, health care must become less distant and opaque and more engaging and collaborative.Mintzberg begins in part 1 by confronting myths about health care, including the following:- We have a system of health
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Stories Can Save Us

America’s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How

by Matt Tullis, Ben Montgomery, Audra D.S Burch, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Pamela Colloff, John Woodrow Cox, Kim Cross, Bronwen Dickey, Mirin Fader, Latria Graham, David Grann, Elon Green, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Eva Holland, Mitchell S. Jackson, Chris Jones, Tom Junod, Abbott Kahler, Michael Kruse, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Rachel Monroe, Vann R. Newkirk II, Bradford Pearson, Andrea Pitzer, Eli Saslow, Leah Sottile, Wright Thompson, Sarah Weinman ...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show ... Read more

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Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show
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Managing

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From "one of the most original minds in management," the landmark book on managing as a practice learned primarily through experience and rooted in context (Fast Company).In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both."The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ... Read more

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From "one of the most original minds in management," the landmark book on managing as a practice learned primarily through experience and rooted in context (Fast Company).In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both."The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong
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Bedtime Stories for Managers

Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management

by Henry Mintzberg ...

If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical ... Read more

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If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical
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Simply Managing

What Managers Do - and Can Do Better

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Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has served as President of the Strategic Management Society, is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (the first from a management faculty), and has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Mintzberg is the author of 15 books, including Managing, Strategy Safari, Strategy Bites ... Read more

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Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has served as President of the Strategic Management Society, is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (the first from a management faculty), and has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Mintzberg is the author of 15 books, including Managing, Strategy Safari, Strategy Bites
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Understanding Organizations...Finally!

Structuring in Sevens

by Henry Mintzberg ...

The iconic Henry Mintzberg provides a crystal-clear map to the forms and forces that shape all human organizations, synthesizing his fifty years of research.We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really ... Read more

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The iconic Henry Mintzberg provides a crystal-clear map to the forms and forces that shape all human organizations, synthesizing his fifty years of research.We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really
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Managers Not MBAs

A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development

by Henry Mintzberg ...

In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both.“The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences,” Mintzberg writes. “Using the classroom to help develop people already practicing management is a fine idea, but pretending to create ... Read more

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In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both.“The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences,” Mintzberg writes. “Using the classroom to help develop people already practicing management is a fine idea, but pretending to create
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Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

by Henry Mintzberg ...

In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis ... Read more

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In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis
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Managing the Myths of Health Care

Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community

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“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.The problem is not management per se but a ... Read more

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Running With Ghosts: A Memoir of Surviving Childhood Cancer

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In Running With Ghosts, author Matt Tullis reminds us that surviving childhood cancer can be a challenge as formidable as fighting for your life—and more enduring. The eldest of three sons born to a trucker and an office-worker, who lived in the idyllic village of Apple Creek, Ohio, Tullis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 15. In short order, the sports-mad teenager found ... Read more

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In Running With Ghosts, author Matt Tullis reminds us that surviving childhood cancer can be a challenge as formidable as fighting for your life—and more enduring. The eldest of three sons born to a trucker and an office-worker, who lived in the idyllic village of Apple Creek, Ohio, Tullis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 15. In short order, the sports-mad teenager found
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