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The Nature of Managerial Work

Henry Mintzberg

This text describes the manager's job using findings of empirical studies conducted internationally throughout many levels of management. The text summarizes eight current schools of thought on the manager's job and analyzes the consistencies and variations in managers' roles and working characteristics....
Publish Date
1980-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
1980-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1973
Goodreads Rating
3.66
ISBN
9780136104025
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2023-03-04T17:09:46.000Z
@SallyHelgesen @HenryMintzberg @coachourselves I just loved the book because it featured the messy reality of organizations. It was, in my view, a frontal attack on Druckerian hyper-rationality, which I instinctively thought was bullshit—but now I had data to prove it/counter it.      source