Managing
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Managing
（A BK business book）
Berrett-Koehler, c2009
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-290) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9781576753408
Description
Mintzberg calls attention to numerous popular but false views about the nature of managerial work, separates fact from folklore, and provides the best information yet published on what managers do and how they do it. He analyzes models, characteristics, and approaches to Managing. He examines commonalities and differences in Managing in various contexts, including business, government, health care, and social services. By shadowing 29 managers through a day in their lives, he reveals how Managing is affected by many factors - including national and industry cultures, organizational differences, level of the manager in the organization, and personal styles - and examines the various strategies that managers adopt to deal with these factors. Mintzberg then identifies the main conundrums or dilemmas that managers must wrestle with (such as delegating versus retaining control, balancing order and flexibility, and gathering more data versus needing to take action) and describes how managers deal with those conundrums. And he offers provocative and powerful new understandings of what makes managers effective and ineffective.
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: pbk ISBN 9781605098746
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A half century ago Peter Drucker put management on the map. Leadership has since pushed it off. Henry Mintzberg aims to restore management to its proper place: front and center. We should be seeing managers as leaders. Mintzberg writes, and leadership as management practiced well. This landmark book draws on Mintzberg's observations of twenty-nine managers, in business, government, health care, and the social sector, working in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. What he saw the pressures, the action, the nuances, the blending compelled him to describe managing as a practice, not a science or a profession, learned primarily through experience and rooted in context.But context cannot be seen in the usual way. Factors such as national culture and level in hierarchy, even personal style, turn out to have less influence than we have traditionally thought. Mintzberg looks at how to deal with some of the inescapable conundrums of managing, such as, How can you get in deep when there is so much pressure to get things done? How can you manage it when you can't reliably measure it? This book is vintage Mintzberg: iconoclastic, irreverent, carefully researched, myth-breaking. Managing may be the most revealing book yet written about what managers do, how they do it, and how they can do it better. "
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