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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have spent a lifetime trying to bust every management myth in sight, for the sake of insight. My upcoming book, "Bust Those Management Myths," is a collection of corrections. To claim your early e-copy and an invite to my private webinar, scan the QR code below! 👇

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Growing up, everything was the US. How true that was and how true it no longer is. #Canada #CanadaDay #video produced by @brovkin.bsky.social t.co/IHd8azCFW1

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Everyone looks for purpose in what Trump does. Every morning he asks himself: "What will I do to get the headlines today: Bomb Iran? Raise tariffs? Threaten Greenland?"

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The wealthy calling for taxes on the super-wealthy is a distraction. Ultimately, this has to be about putting powerful private interests back in their place, namely the marketplace – out of the public place. #RebalsncingSociety #video #quote

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Davos has always been the place where the people who spend 51 weeks a year creating the problems spend the 52nd pretending to solve them. Except now the pretense is over.

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Davos has always been the place where the people who spend 51 weeks a year creating the problems spend the 52nd pretending to solve them. Except now the pretense is over. 1/3

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Perhaps nothing has broken the spirit of our professional services, especially in schools and healthcare, more than the imposition of technocratic fixes. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Serendipity can be, not only playful, but consequential, in organizations that manage it playfully. mintzberg.org/blog/serendi...

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Is Serendipity Really Serendipitous? Come Find Out! | Henry Mintzberg

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Business has a convenient bottom line, called profit, which can easily be measured. What’s the bottom line in government, say for terrorism? mintzberg.org/blog/busines...

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

William Butler Yeats wrote famously that “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…” Accordingly, opinion writers, left and right, have been writing about the center holding or not. What center? Mostly it’s been folding, not holding. mintzberg.org/blog/center-...

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The center’s not holding, it’s folding. How about rounding? | Henry Mintzberg

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In a project organization, expect the unexpected. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Shareholder value has nothing to do with human values, it's got nothing to do with decency, it's got nothing to do with anything but greed. #management #leadership #video produced by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social >>>>> youtu.be/jrlMfkwVDT0

Minute with Mintzberg #1: Shareholder Value vs Human Values

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We won’t get anywhere with climate change or any other long-term problems we are trying to address – until we achieve a balance. This is an excerpt from "Rebalancing Society - A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg". #video: >> youtu.be/cFrRRhMpcr8 << Produced by @brovkin.bsky.social

MwM30: SUSTAINABILITY in the Short Run

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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Beavers are nature’s sculptors. I’ve spent years collecting their work. On June 16, we launch a video and have a conversation about this unusual collection. www.linkedin.com/events/henry...

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Henry Mintzberg’s Collection of Beaver Sculptures | LinkedIn

A conversation between Henry Mintzberg, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Juha Huuskonen. Henry Mintzberg is a renowned Canadian management scholar, best known for his influential wo...

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Beavers don’t strategize - but they certainly shape their environments. I’ve spent decades collecting the results On June 16, I’ll share this collection in an online event. Details here: www.linkedin.com/events/henry... In the meantime, you are invited to watch this #video youtu.be/3RQehKFXjQU

Henry Mintzberg’s Beaver Sculptures: A Guided Tour

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Henry Mintzberg’s Beaver Sculptures: A Guided Tour

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sooner or later, every organization must expect the unexpected, no matter how stable its structure. hashtag#ThinkingOnThursday hashtag#quote

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I am not a mere customer of my government, thank you, as if I buy services at arm’s length. I am an engaged citizen of my country. mintzberg.org/blog/busines...

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This New Minute is an excerpt from The Innovation Show with Aidan McCullen: Rebalancing Society: Addressing Imbalances in Politics, Economy, and Community. #MwM #video produced by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social youtu.be/LJcx6j08TlY

MwM 45 - Experts Who Know Better Can Be Worse

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Are we so obsessed with leadership because we get so little of it? Or, do we get so little of it because we are so obsessed with it? #ThinkingOnThursday #quote

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state, but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Democrats should be delighted with the 51st state, but Republicans might want to bear this in mind.

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Join us for a special information session featuring IMPM - # 1 International Masters Program for Managers. Learn about this unique executive leadership program. The only program of its kind with modules at five leading universities in five different countries. Sign-up here: impm.org/sign-up-for-...

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Online Information Session - International  Masters Program for Managers

Join us for a 1-hour introduction to the IMPM, presented by the Academic Director and Global Executive Director of the Program.

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In 1996, several academics teamed up – and created the International Masters Program for Managers (impm.org) and the International Masters for Health Leadership @McGillGCHM_IMHL youtu.be/utdkkAD68aU <<<< #video by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Growing up, everything was the US. How true that was and how true it no longer is. #video by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social >>>>> youtu.be/XahmK-ynO8Q <<<<<

Minute with Mintzberg #6: I'm so glad I came back to Canada.

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Management and leadership are two sides of the same coin. They work together in the larger realm of “communityship." #quote

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

About this 51st state, really the 51st to 60th, politically, more or less:

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

In 2021, I posted this blog. It seems appropriate to repeat it now, with no editing. Read the full article to explore what’s next. mintzberg.org/blog/pipsque...

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The Rise of Pipsqueak Canada | Henry Mintzberg

Picture found long ago but don’t know the source. Would be pleased to give credit if someone knows who.

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources. #quote

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My daughter Lisa once left me a note in a shoe that read “Souls need fixing.” Little did she know… mintzberg.org/blog/soul

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Dear Members of the Board I am writing to you with a proposal that may seem radical, but is in fact conservative. mintzberg.org/blog/a-ceo-l...

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Maybe we think too much and see too little. What, then, does strategic seeing mean? Most people would agree that strategic thinking means seeing ahead. But we can’t see ahead unless we see behind … #management #strategy mintzberg.org//blog/strate...

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There are no two people who are the same. And they make up organizations. Therefore every organization is different, and every design has to be customized. Let people work out how to work together. #Video produced by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social youtu.be/_P3y0EM-wzU

MwM34: Paving the Pathways

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In the natural world, compare a troop of monkeys with the alpha male at its head, a flock of geese flying in formation, ants scurrying around doing their own thing together, and a family of beavers building a dam. Four fundamental forms of organizing. t.co/yUrmBebp6a

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Henry Mintzberg @Mintzberg141 · Jan 24 The closest model for the kind of change that the world needs now is probably the Reformation of the 16th century. #rebalancing #society #video youtu.be/UCtZNFdUzKA Produced by Collectiver @brovkin.bsky.social

Minute with Mintzberg #16: Time for the next Reformation?

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. #ThinkingOnThursday #quote

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Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

So how do we make decisions? That’s easy. First we diagnose, next we design, then we decide, and finally we do (carry that choice into action). In other words, we think in order to act: I call this thinking first. #management #strategy mintzberg.org/blog/decisio...

Henry Mintzberg @mintzberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What will happen when his policies to serve the wealthy hit the fan—for example, tariffs that could revive inflation and gutted public services on which the beleaguered depend? mintzberg.org/blog/trump-l...