Professor Etzion selected as finalist for Giarratani Rising Star Award
Professor Dror Etzion was selected as a finalist of this year's Giarratani Rising Star Award (GRSA) for his paper entitled, 鈥淚nstitutional logics and environmental strategy in the office furniture industry.鈥� The three finalists and winner will be honoured at the upcoming Industry Studies Conference in late May where they will present their work in a special session with a senior leader in the field.
The Art (NOT Science) of Management鈥揳nd Its Cousin Leadership
It seems that a number of people want to be scientists, or at least in the sense of ostensibly adding credibility to their respective field of work. Economists (of which I鈥檝e been a practitioner since 1982) and those in the leadership field (yours truly since the early nineties) covet the science moniker. Adding the word 鈥渟cience鈥� adds a certain cachet to one鈥檚 profession.
D茅s茅quilibre social
脌 l鈥檕ccasion de la sortie de son pamphlet 芦R茅茅quilibrer la soci茅t茅禄, l鈥檃cad茅micien de renomm茅e mondiale聽Henry Mintzberg聽discutait au Cercle Universitaire de 69热视频, jeudi 27 mars, de sa conception des priorit茅s sociales. La soci茅t茅, dit-il, est compos茅e de trois piliers qu鈥檌l faut savoir 茅quilibrer: le public, le priv茅, et ce qu鈥檌l appelle le pluriel, 芦la soci茅t茅 civile禄.
Une guerre pour aider des femmes
Women for Women International est une organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) 艙uvrant 脿 aider les femmes dans des pays qui ont 茅t茅 affect茅s par des conflits militaires. Depuis quelques mois, un groupe de dix 茅tudiants a d茅cid茅 de lutter pour cette cause 脿 l鈥櫭ヽhelle de l鈥橴niversit茅 69热视频. Le D茅lit a pu avoir une entrevue avec Zo毛 Holl, responsable m茅dias et communications et Faustine Rohr-Lacoste, co-fondatrice et responsable 茅v茅nements et lev茅es de fonds.
Talking Management witk Karl Moore: Why You Need to View a Company as 'a Community of Human Beings'
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Karl Moore聽of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 69热视频 speaks to professor聽Henry Mintzberg聽about his new e-pamphlet "Rebalancing Society."
Finding Ways to Inspire Confidence
Managing is easy. Getting people to do what you tell them that is hard.
... In his book 鈥淪imply Managing鈥澛燞enry Mintzberg聽emphasizes the concept of 鈥渆ngaging management鈥� in a way that utilizes a sense of respecting, trusting, caring, inspiring and listening to get the best of everyone in the organization.
Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right and Center
鈥淲e have to leave behind the linear politics of left, right, and center, to understand that聽a balanced society, like a stable stool, has to rest on three solid legs: a public sector of political forces rooted in respected governments, a private sector of economic forces based on responsible businesses, and a plural sector of social forces manifested in robust communities.鈥�
Read full paper: www.mintzberg.org
How Women Leaders Have Transformed Management
In a recent New York Times column, 鈥淗ow to Get a Job at Google,鈥� Thomas Friedman interviews Laszlo Bock, the company鈥檚 senior vice president for people operations (which seems to be Google-speak for talent management). Bock notes that because constant innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, people who succeed in the company 鈥渢end to be those with a lot of soft skills: leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability, and loving to learn and re-learn.鈥�
Le prof Mintzberg persiste et signe
Voil脿 41 ans que le professeur Henry Mintzberg jette son regard critique sur les organisations, leurs strat茅gies et leurs leaders. Son 17e livre, sorti le 1er mars, est un fait un e-pamphlet, ou brochure 茅lectronique. Sous le titre Rebalancing Society, Mintzberg tourne cette fois son regard inquiet sur la soci茅t茅. Mais qu'est-ce qui trouble ainsi le sommeil du plus international des professeurs qu茅b茅cois de gestion ?
The Strange Psychology of Expectations
When Facebook announced its astounding $19bn takeover of 55-employee WhatsApp, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and other tech startup hubs around the world were shocked.
Real Trouble
Don't go talking "real world" with Henry Mintzberg. It's a silly term that drives him mad, especially when management skills are at stake.聽
"The word 'real world' is a red flag for me," says Mintzberg, 69热视频's John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies. "Real world is out there. You don't simulate a real world. We don't play business in our classroom."
Market May Reward 'Greenwashing' Over Green Results
A growing number of people are interested in investing in companies that perform well environmentally as well as economically. Unfortunately, measuring environmental performance is not as straightforward as calculating a simple financial return on investment.
Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 Un-MBA Management Program
Lili Hall (IMPM'13) came across the International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM) by chance. She had considered MBA programs before, but the standard options seemed too formulaic. 鈥淓very time I looked at the curriculum, I鈥檇 get sad,鈥� she says. As the founder and CEO of KNOCK, inc., a creative agency, Hall had already enjoyed a lot of professional success. She wasn鈥檛 looking to switch industries or climb the corporate ladder.
5 Ideas for Crafting a Manager
The concept of leadership is always a big one in the nonprofit sector, and the facts of a looming retirement binge, as well as changes in the landscape, make the development of top-notch managers more important.
In his book 鈥淪imply Managing鈥� Henry Mintzberg writes about efforts to help in the development of management in a variety of setting. He offers a look at the ideas that lie behind these efforts.聽
