Henry Mintzberg: "A Crisis of Management Not Economics"
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 5:10PM McGill University management professor Karl Moore interviews McGill University management professor and global management guru Henry Minztberg on the dysfunction of management education and practice, the need to reduce the obsessive focus on leadership and the stimulus and encouragement of "communityship".
I'd embed the video clip in this blog post if I could, but it's on the web site of the Toronto Globe and Mail and it does not offer the html string that enables embedding in a blog platform ... so if you did not click on the link to the clip above, make sure you click here.
It's worth watching.
I believe that my thinking about wirearchy implies "communityship", as in the devolvement of power and responsibility to individuals and on-purpose groups in linked networks of interests and values.
Mintzberg's closing comment:
"I think that there are lots of ways of encouraging and stimulating the private sector, the business sector, without this nutty form of capitalism we're stuck with"
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Glad you said this. I said the same in a presentation to a uni last week. I suspect they thought I was batty. Over here, the approach to the recession is to make a joke, commiserate with the other person to have lost their job/house, carry on!
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Just reblogged this over here with a hat-tip to you. Which tag do you covet, BTW? I've linked you to "management futurist".