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Beyond Selfishness

By Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu - A syndrome of selfishness, built on a series of half-truths, has taken hold of our corporations and our societies, as well as our minds. This calculus of glorified self-interest and the fabrications upon which it is based must be challenged. (Added: 30-Nov-2009 Hits: 854 )

From Strategic Planning to Strategic Thinking

By James Morrison - Henry Mintzberg (1994), in an article appearing in the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review titled "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning," states that the label strategic planning should be dropped because strategic planning has impeded strategic thinking. This article reviews Mintzberg's position on strategic planning (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 806 )

No More Executive Bonuses! - Business Insight - Wall Street Journal / MIT Sloan - MIT Sloan Management Review

By Henry Mintzberg - These days, it seems, there is no shortage of recommendations for fixing the way bonuses are paid to executives at big public companies. Well, I have my own recommendation: Scrap the whole thing. Don't pay any bonuses. Nothing. This may sound extreme. But when you look at the way the compensation game is played--and the assumptions that are made by those who want to reform it--you can come to no other conclusion. The system simply can't be fixed (Added: 30-Nov-2009 Hits: 249 )

Organization Studies: Sustaining the Institutional Environment.

By Henry Mintzbert - Sustaining the physical environment requires sustenance of the associated institutional environment. Questions are raised about this, based on the observation of a day in each of the lives of two headquarters managers at Greenpeace, the Executive Director and a Director of certain of the central units. In our analysis, we look beyond the obvious doing and the obvious planning, beyond the obvious acting and the obvious politicking (Added: 15-Mar-2003 Hits: 570 )