Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell to Lofty Leadership... Welcome Engaging Management.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mintzberg, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, 2019.

Summary:

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 reflections on management. The moral here is this: managers need to leave their castles and find out what's actually going on in their kingdoms. And like real bedtime stories, these essays have metaphors galore. So prepare to grow strategies like weeds and organize like a cow. Discover the maestro myth of managing, find the soft underbelly of hard data, and learn why downsizing is bloodletting and your board should be a bee. Mintzberg writes, "Just try not to be outraged by anything you read, because some of my most outrageous ideas turn out to be my best. They just take a while to become obvious."

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Good Evening

About This Storyteller

The Tooth Fairies

ONE Stories of Managing

Managing Scrambled Eggs

The Maestro Myth of Managing

Managing to Lead

Selecting the Flawed Manager

The Epidemic of Managing without Soul

Managing in the Age of the Internet

Decision-Making: It's Not What You Think

Growing Strategies Like Weeds in a Garden

TWO Stories of Organizing

Organizing Like a Cow

Communityship beyond Leadership

Networks Are Not Communities

Transformation from the Top? Or Engagement on the Ground?

Species of Organizations

Why Do We Say "Top Management" but never "bottom management"?

Enough of Silos? How about Slabs?

Manageable and Unmanageable Managing

The Board as Bee

THREE Stories of Analyzing

Analyst: Analyze Thyself

Ye Gods: An Efficient Orchestra!

What Could Possibly Be Wrong with "Effi ciency"? Plenty.

The Soft Underbelly of "Hard Data"

The Tricky Task of Measuring Managing

Evidence and Experience in Management, Medicine, and More

How National Happiness became gross

FOUR Stories about Development

Jack's Turn

MBAs as CEOs: Some Troubling Evidence

Engage Managers Beyond Administration ("emba")

Don't Just Sit There . .

FIVE Stories in Context

Managing Family Business

Global? How about Worldly?

Who Can Possibly Manage a Hospital?

Managing Government, Governing Management

SIX Stories about Responsibility

A CEO's Letter to the Board-long overdue

"Downsizing" as Twenty-First-Century Bloodletting

Productive and Destructive Productivity

The Scandal That Is a Syndrome

Please Welcome CSR 2.0

SEVEN Stories for Tomorrow

The Extraordinary Power of Ordinary Creativity

Customer Service or serving customers?

Enough of MORE: Better Is Better.

Be Good: The Best Is Too Low a Standard

Rise and Shine!

Notes

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Notes:

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ISBN:

9781523098798

1523098791