Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

I'm the guy who puts projects together.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

If it doesn't go [fit] on a bumper sticker, we don't listen.

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.

Anyone who ends up being a leader of a large complicated organization, whether you're a male or a female, you're working an immense amount of hours, and you can't do everything. You can't have complete work/life balance.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of organization and leadership.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.