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    Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management
    Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management
    Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management
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    Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management

    By Henry Mintzberg

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    If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management.

    The moral here is this: managers need to leave their castles and find out what's actually going on in their kingdoms. And like real bedtime stories, these essays have metaphors galore. So prepare to grow strategies like weeds and organize like a cow. Discover the maestro myth of managing, find the soft underbelly of hard data, and learn why downsizing is bloodletting and your board should be a bee. Mintzberg writes, “Just try not to be outraged by anything you read, because some of my most outrageous ideas turn out to be my best. They just take a while to become obvious.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781523098804
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    Henry Mintzberg

    Henry Mintzberg is the author of several seminal books, including The Nature of Managerial Work, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, and Managers Not MBAs. He is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University.

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