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- 1 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP The Inescapable Conundrums of Managing Henry Mintzberg Edward Reilly
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- 2 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Today’s Presenter - Henry Mintzberg Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal Winner of awards from the most prestigious academic and practitioner institutions in management (Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management, Association of Management Consulting Firms, and others). Author of fifteen books, including Managers Not MBAs, Strategy Safari, The Rise and Fall of strategic Planning, and Managing.
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- 3 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Edward Reilly Edward Reailly is President and CEO of American Management Association, a leading global not-for-profit, membership-based management development, research and publishing organization. Reilly previously served as president and chief executive officer of Big Flower Holdings, Inc. Prior to that, he spent over 25 years in a variety of senior executive positions with the broadcast and book publishing groups of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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- 4 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Major lessons from the findings in the book It’s time to go back to management There has been too much emphasis on leadership
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- 5 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Engaged management People are in touch. They know what’s going on in their industries and their companies There is a connect between the manager and the company Management is a natural process. Effective managers are normal, healthy people who know what’s going on.
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- 6 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Too much leadership and not enough management? “Cover your back and keep your head down”is the style of management that’s become prevalent in too many companies
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- 7 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Management By “Deeming” It is easy to sit in an office and deem results. It is more important to get on the ground and help people grow results Need to create the culture that people want to work cooperatively and enthusiastically. Not micromanaging, but supporting. Problem is with macro leading, which are leaders who are too removed. MBA programs have played a major role in causing a lot of theseproblems because MBA programs teach people to become managers out of context. You can manage anything by going to Harvard Business school.
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- 8 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP From 30 years ago to today Many more businesses have moved from traditional manufacturing to being knowledge worker businesses Varieties of managing. Factors that influence managing national culture. Are Chinese managers different from American managers. Most influential factor was the kind of organization people were working in as managers. Particularly professional organizations.
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- 9 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Skills Managers Need to be Successful You can train people in each of these competencies:Negotiation skills, decision making, etc. Managing is a blending and integrating of these skills. Management is not a profession. Management is a practice. Mostly based on experience. You learn it on the job.
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- 10 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Competency sharing Put up a problem When people share their experiences and what worked for them in the past they can create a very powerful resource
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- 11 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP What lessons can apply to uncertain times? The crisis is caused largely by inept management We must rethink the whole process of how we’re managing
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- 12 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Goal setting Community-ship vs. Leadership Leadership is about the individual –we need to get away from individualistic performances Need to enhance community-ship Managing is a practice, not a science or profession. It encompasses leadership, and is embedded in community- ship.
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- 13 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Risk-taking and the bonus system The bonus system has encouraged risk. If you succeed and the short term stock price goes up, you get a bonus Its like getting paid for drawing cards in poker without showing your hand and we reward it To promote community-ship in your organization you shouldn’t rethink bonuses. You should get rid of them.
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- 14 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Where Has All the Judgment Gone? Too much executive selection is from the outside in “Kiss-up and kick- down”management Listen to those who know best Stop discouraging good judgment
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- 15 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP How do managers find the right balance? Effective managers are both reflective and active Take time to discuss issues with others Periods of reflection and correction can help avoid a “downward spiral”of behavior
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- 16 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Engaging in the Global Marketplace The “Worldly”vs. “Homogenous global”manager “Homogenous Global”– subscribing to a cookie cutter model and forgetting your roots “Worldly”- to get into someone else's world and understand deeply and as a consequence know your world even better
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- 17 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP The Internet The Internet is not changing the practice of management. It is reinforcing characteristics that we have been seeing for decades. In so doing, the Internet may be driving much management practice over the edge. Making it so frenetic that it has become dysfunctional: too superficial, too disconnected, too conformist.
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- 18 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP People for the study 29 managers No way to get a representative sample Tried to vary the sample as much as possible
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- 19 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP How Professional Organizations Deal with Management M.D. or M.B.A.? Professionals have to realize that management is necessary among them too. The effectiveness of a manager can only be judged in context. There are no effective managers in general (i.e., no professional managers). All of this has to be judged; it cannot just be measured by numbers.
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- 20 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Development Interventions with managers Weaknesses of MBA programs “What are you doing about it?” MBA programs are great for functional kinds of skills like marketing and finance, but they don’t teach management. You can’t create a manager in a classroom Build the learning around managerial experience Bring teams of managers to work on an issue – “Friendly Consulting”
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- 21 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Q&A Time Is the leader the guy at the top or the person who shares vision and provides motivation What is the major difference between leadership and management? Leaders don’t what to manage because it requires hard work. How do you overcome that? Managers are forced to make unpleasant decisions. How can they motivate the rest of the team to successfully contribute to productivity and at the same time win trust? Performance measurement as a metric. Is that the right metric to create communityship? How does training play a role ion management? How do you know what is good judgment? Which are the most important management activities and has it changed from the past? How do we promote new ideas in an organization and avoid the fear of failure amongst our employees?
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- 22 - CZECH SOCIETY FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEUSHIP Thank you!
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