"No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources."

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Source : Henry Mintzberg (1989). “Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

Henry Mintzberg

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“I'm a real home girl.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”
“I love children. I've always loved children.”
“Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.”
“There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.”
“In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.”
“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.”

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