Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

I've always felt that, in the past, there has been a teacher-pupil relationship between the management and the players. But the best teams are run in such a way that the players have a voice.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

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

The success of an organization will depend on the people you surround yourself with.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

It's easier to solve the problem more quickly with directors than with writers.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or be a lot more willing to really take charge of whole large group of people than I feel comfortable doing - because a director really has to run everything, and be very confident in their ability to do so.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

You don't need a team leader, you need quality.

I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

Jesus was a management expert too.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.