Simply Managing: What Managers Do–and Can Do Better

One of Library Journal’s Top Ten Business Books of the Year: The essentials of managing, from “one of the most original minds in management” (Fast Company). Winner, Chartered Management Institute’s Management Book of the Year 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 One of Choice magazine’s top ten outstanding books of the year

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?

“Mintzberg is a fine writer, with a penchant for humor.”—The Globe and Mail “Mintzberg does not accept conventional wisdom—he challenges it constantly…erudite as well as practical.”—Choice

“Perhaps the world’s premier management thinker.”—Tom Peters

© 2023 Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Ebook): 9781609949259

Release date

Ebook: October 17, 2023