Mintzberg on America’s Management Failures

Henry Mintzberg is the authority that I most respect on the subject of strategy. He has written both the best textbook and the most thoughtful critiques of current practices of strategy and strategic planning I know. The easiest way to get a feel for his perspective is Strategy Bites Back.

So I pay attention when he speaks. And he had lots to say in his piece in the Globe and Mail recently here entitled, “America’s Monumental Failure of Management” which I found thanks to a post by Richard Florida. Read more