Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

- Henry Mintzberg

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

- Henry Mintzberg

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is n…

- Henry Mintzberg

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

- Henry Mintzberg

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he…

- Henry Mintzberg

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

- Henry Mintzberg

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

- Henry Mintzberg

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

- Henry Mintzberg

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

- Henry Mintzberg