“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Henry Mintzberg calls that a ridiculous comment. The McGill professor discusses his new book, Bust Those Management Myths, from the flat earth theory to bees and flies in a bottle, and explains why strategies are learned and why top management is a dangerous metaphor.
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Join Aidan McCullen as he welcomes Harvard professors Joe Bower and Clark Gilbert to explore how strategy truly emerges—from the ground up. Drawing from their book From Resource Allocation to Strategy, the conversation reveals how real-world decisions, not plans, shape organizational outcomes.
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Peter Compo, author of ‘The Emergent Approach to Strategy,’ discusses the chronic failures in strategic planning and how his new book aims to redefine strategy through the lens of complex adaptive systems.
Posted 9 years ago Tagged Innovation Insights Leadership Strategic Planning Strategy
Alphacoders If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at […]