Bedtime Stories for Managers (with Henry Mintzberg)

Demystifying Organizations

Henry Mintzberg, one of the world’s most influential thinkers in management, and Jeff Schatten discuss a wide range of issues that include leadership as a bottom-up process, the problem of relying on data, and how to stop short-term thinking.

Henry Mintzberg is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal. Mintzberg earned his PhD in management from MIT in 1968.

Henry Mintzberg writes prolifically on the topics of management and business strategy, with more than 150 articles and fifteen books to his name. His seminal book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (Mintzberg 1994), criticizes some of the practices of strategic planning today. His new book is “Bedtime Stories for Managers.”