Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Well, every manager has to take his personality into the job that he does, but irrespective of that personality you have to be aggressive when you need to be.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.