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Simply Managing
  • Published: 1 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781609949235
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $49.99

Simply Managing



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?
• Are leaders really more important than managers?
• Where has all the judgment gone?
• Is email destroying management practice?
• How can managers connect when their job disconnects them from what they are managing?

If you read only one book about managing, this should be it!

  • Published: 1 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781609949235
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $49.99

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Praise for Simply Managing

Winner of the Chartered Management Institute’s Management Book of the Year award. One of strategy+business magazine’s top three management books of the year. One of the Toronto Globe and Mail’s top ten business books of the year: “Henry Mintzberg is a fine writer, with a penchant for humor.” One of Choice magazine’s top ten outstanding books of the year: “Mintzberg does not accept conventional wisdom—he challenges it constantly…erudite as well as practical.” One of Library Journal’s top business books of the year.