Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations

An MBA graduate can be a terrible manager. He will skillfully apply mathematical models for analysis, juggle terms from the best textbooks, but he will not be able to manage normally. Henry Mintzberg observed the activities of managers from different companies and came to the conclusion that it is impossible to learn management from books. The work of a manager largely consists not of analytical, but of creative tasks that require non-standard thinking. Managers who not only relied on ratio...