Henry Mintzberg

is the most down to earth professor I ever read across. His concepts are very real, and he is quite blunt with the truth, and I like how he brings across the most realistic things and fans out those hard wired theorists.

I like this quote:

“I have come to suspect that Harvard’s great success may be business’s great failure. In other words, the real danger of the design school may be in providing a seductive model whose superficial “rationality” in the classroom can so easily get promoted into the executive suite.”

“Maybe that is all too true: in formulating detached, easy strategies in case study discussions, later in executive meetings, which are not meant to be implemented, and later cannot be, and in giving all those “whiz kids” a head start down the “fast track.” They can certainly tell a “probable ‘non-starter” from a “winner,”.

Mintzberg, Henry (1996)

Too bad I can’t put that in my assignment, haha.

He makes me think that business school is crappy make believe institution that can emulate what happens in the real world, when in fact it is not! I am glad he invented the term emergent strategies that are not foreseeable in the uncertain future. I don’t think much of what I have learnt in school applies to what I do in my business anyway…