Simply Managing: What Managers Do–and Can Do Better

Simply Managing: What Managers Do–and Can Do Better

The Essence of Managing<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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: <br /><br />•How is anyone supposed to think, let alone think ahead, in this frenetic job?<br />•Are leaders really more important than managers?<br />•Where has all the judgment gone?<br />•Is email destroying management practice?<br />•How can managers connect when their job disconnects them from what they are managing?<br /><br />If you read only one book about managing, this should be it!