Henry Mintzberg Quotes

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.

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

Leadership is hard to train on.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

None of us are naïve enough to believe that moving around boxes on organization charts will change behavior. You have to change culture.

To rule is an art, not a science.

Baking is both an art and a science.

You never stop learning in football management and I certainly believe the invaluable experience from my time as Villa manager will prove hugely beneficial in the next stage of my managerial career.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the process. In life and in business, we rely on each other to be responsible for individual tasks that benefit everyone. People sometimes forget how much interdependence there really is in a successful business. Learn the art of asking for help to empower and motivate others, and you will have learned a very powerful management strategy.

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first-line attention. In this regard we could learn much from the Japanese. We must reinvest in the human side of management.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.