Managing

Henry Mintzberg, a prominent management thinker from the 1970s to the present, has consistently advocated for the practical training of managers in real management experiences. The basics of Henry Mintzberg theory are that management skills cannot be taught in a classroom, but can only be enhanced through authentic experiences. This book is vintage Mintzberg: provocative, irreverent, carefully researched, myth-busting. It is the most authoritative and revealing book yet written about what managers do, how they do it, and how they can have the greatest impact.

Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal and the winner of awards from the most prestigious academic and practitioner institutions in management (Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management, Association of Management Consulting Firms, and others). He is the author of fifteen books, including Managers Not MBAs, Strategy Safari, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, and Mintzberg on Management, and is a founding partner of www.CoachingOurselves.com. For more information on his activities, visit www.mintzberg.org.

Preface
A Note to the Reader

CHAPTER 1: MANAGING AHEAD
CHAPTER 2: DYNAMICS OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 3: A MODEL OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 4: THE UNTOLD VARIETIES OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 5: THE INESCAPABLE CONUNDRUMS OF MANAGING
CHAPTER 6: MANAGING EFFECTIVELY

APPENDIX: EIGHT DAYS OF MANAGING
Bibliography
Index
About the Author