About the Book: Simply Managing: What Managers Do and Can Do Better
The Essence of Managing Henry Mintzberg appreciates that managers are busy
people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and
distilled its essence into a lean 176 pages of text. The essence of the book
remains the same: what Mintzberg learned from observing twenty-nine managers in
settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. Simply Managing
considers the intense dynamics of this job as well as its inescapable
conundrums, for example:
-How is anyone supposed to think, let alone think ahead, in this frenetic job?
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