Henry Mintzberg“The world’s premiere management thinker.”

Agenda

• Credentials

• Books

• Articles

• Recent Initiatives

Credentials

• Bachelor’s of Engineering Degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

• 1965- Masters of Science degree in Management

• 1965- Ph.D. Sloan School of Management at (MIT)

• 2000- named Distinguished Scholar by the Academy of Management

• 2011- named #30 on the Thinker’s 50 List

• Currently he is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in Montreal

Books

• The Nature of Managerial Work (Prentice-Hall, 1973)

• Strategy Strategy Bites Back

• Organizational structure The Structure in 5s

• Leadership Education Managers not MBAs

• Managering -2011 Chartered Management Institute, Management Book of the Year

Articles

• More than 150 articles in print

• Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize (2005)

• Two Harvard Business Review McKinsey prizewinners: • "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact" (l975)• "Crafting Strategy" (l987)

• He is recognized in the Web of Science list of “the world’s most cited and influential researchers” with approximately 4,000 citations.

Recent Initiatives

Conclusion

• Mintzberg is courageous and controversial

• Intensely practical

• He challenges the education process

• Though he doesn’t speak from a spiritual point of view much of his material has implications in Christian leadership

• Uses his influence to challenge government, business and education institutions of North America