Bedtime Stories for Managers

In bedtime stories for managers, Henry Mintzberg cleverly criticizes most common managing methods through his short stories and memorable metaphors.

In management, there are different experts which sometimes happen to have totally different views from each other.

Henry Mintzberg is a great thinker with a unique mind whose professionalism and opinions are the result of years of observation on the greatest organizations.

Unlike most writers and consultants who humiliate experienced managers and experts with their words and make them stressed and worried, Mintzberg’s words brings peace to managers.

He is someone who not only understands organizations, but also knows human and society fairly well and his most concern is human’s wellbeing.

His views are beyond his time and are a facilitator in times you are distracted by today’s organizations and dried up of creativity and stuck in everyday problems with your social life.

Bedtime stories for managers is a summary of Mintzberg’s brilliant views which were gained through years of study and are collected in a collection of short beneficial stories and metaphors. In Mintzberg’s opinion this book may be the most important thing that happened to him in his 80s.

This is a comprehensive book which covers a wide variety of subjects from “training management” to “organizing” and from different aspects which differs from the knowledge of common management books. The stories are written simply but deep down there is a knowledge which is the result of deep observation of organization and society.

Henry Mintzberg

He is known as the father of management by a lot of people. He absolutely is the greatest alive strategist who has written more than 150 articles in management and strategic business. He was born in 1939 in Toronto and studied mechanical engineering in Mc Gill University and got his PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management in1968 respectively.

Some of his achievements are listed below:

• In 1972 he gained the honor of teaching in McKinsey
• He has twice won the Mc Gill Award for publishing the best article in the Harvard Business Review in 1975 and 1987
• He was the chairman of the Strategic Management Association in 1988-1989

Here are some of his books listed below:

• Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Strategic Management
• Managing
• Tracking Strategies: Toward a General Theory
• Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations
• Management – It’s not what you think
• Tracking Strategies: Toward a General Theory

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