Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell to Lofty Leadership... Welcome Engaging Management

How about a bedtime story? Had your fill of lofty leadership, strategic planning, and human resources? Here come engaging management, strategic learning, and human beings. Relax tonight with this compelling collection of bedtime stories from Henry Mintzberg, "perhaps the world's premier management thinker" (Tom Peters). Celebrate strategies that grow like weeds in a garden. Discover how to organize like a cow instead of a chart. Learn to select managers for their flaws. Appreciate that if you can't measure it, you-had better manage it. Above all, welcome communityship beyond leadership. Join this crusade to bring management down from the clouds by debunking the maestro myth of managing, replacing keynote speakers with keynote listening, uncovering the soft underbelly of hard data, and questioning the label "CEO" in hospital, governments, and other endangered species. Book jacket.