Managing / Henry Mintzberg.
Series: Financial Times series: Publisher: Harlow, England : Financial Times : Prentice Hall, Pearson, 2011Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 45239ISBN: 9780273745631 (e-book)Subject(s): ManagementGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 658 LOC classification: HD31 | .M56 2011Online resources: Click to ViewItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This landmark book by one of the world's leading business thinkers is about managing, pure if not simple. It tackles the big questions managers everywhere face, such as:
How is anyone supposed to think, let alone think ahead, in this frenetic job? Are leaders really more important than managers? Is email destroying management practice? Are managers the only ones who can, or should, manage? How are managers supposed to connect when the very nature of their job disconnects them from what they are managing? How can you manage it when you can't reliably measure it?MANAGING MAKES SENSE OF WHAT MIGHT BE THE WORLD'S MOST IMORTANT JOB.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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In Mintzberg's view, management is not a science or a profession. Rather, it is a practice, where expertise is gained is a messy milieu made up of uncertainties, enormous pressures, demanding stakeholders, and incessant competition. In his landmark book The Nature of Managerial Work (1973), Mintzberg (McGill Univ.) followed five chief executives over the course of a working week. In this current work, he uses the same methodology--meticulous observation of 29 managers from a variety of organizations. What ensues is a marvelous description of the numerous everyday challenges that managers face and how the successful ones tackle these challenges. Take the case of Sandy Davis, in charge of the national parks of western Canada. Mintzberg argues, quite correctly, that Davis faces a classic managerial conundrum: does she micromanage because each park in her domain is distinct? Or does she look for synergies in these parks? Each choice has its pros and cons, but for Davis this is a predicament that she faces every day. Mintzberg does not accept conventional wisdom--he challenges it constantly using his vaunted research methodology. The current book is erudite as well as practical. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Business collections, upper-division undergraduate through professional. R. Subramanian Montclair State UniversityBooklist Review
Academic Mintzberg, ranked nine on the Top 20 Business Thinkers list of the Wall Street Journal and 16 on the Financial Times' The Thinkers 50 list, bases this book on information developed from spending a day each with 29 managers in a variety of fields. Observing, interviewing, and reviewing the managers' diaries, Mintzberg shares what he learned from his research what happened in each manager's day and then interprets why it happened. Industries of these managers include business, government, health care, and the social sector from the managing director of a high-tech company to an orchestra conductor to the manager of a refugee camp. These 29 pictures of management as practiced illustrate the varied realities of managing. Mintzberg concludes, to be effective in any managerial position, there is a need for thoughtfulness not dogma, not greed risen to some high art, not fashionable technique, not me-too strategies, not all that leadership' hype, just plain old judgment. This is an excellent, must-read book for managers and aspiring managers.--Whaley, Mary Copyright 2009 BooklistThere are no comments on this title.