Management: The Nature and Structure of Organizations

A graduate of an MBA program can turn out to be a terrible manager. He will masterfully apply mathematical models for analysis, juggle terms from the best textbooks, but will not be able to manage properly.Henry Mintzberg observed the activities... of managers from different companies and concluded that it is impossible to learn management from books. The work of a leader largely consists not of analytical, but of creative tasks that require unconventional thinking. More effective were those managers who not only relied on rational arguments, but who could timely engage their intuition.In exploring the nature of management, Mintzberg also discovered that management varies significantly across different organizations: leading a team at NASA and at McDonald's has to be based on different principles. The universal manager is a utopia, and every manager needs to understand what kinds of organizations exist and on what rules work is built in each of them.In the book "Management: The Nature and Structure of Organizations," articles, essays, and speeches by the author are collected, which summarize his research in the field of corporate management and help to understand how to combine analysis and intuition in managerial work, which management methods work in each of the seven types of organizations, and what consequences ineffective management has for society.