Understanding Organizations...Finally!: Structuring in Sevens
Written by Henry Mintzberg
Narrated by Wayne Shepherd
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About this audiobook
We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really work. But where can we go to find out?
Welcome to Understanding Organizations . . . Finally! For half a century, Mintzberg has been observing organizations, advising them, engaging them, and escaping them. Here he offers a masterful update and revision of his 1983 classic, Structure in Fives.
Believing there is one best way to structure organizations is the worst way to do so. A better place to start is by recognizing different species of organizations. Mintzberg identifies seven-personal enterprises, programmed machines, professional assemblies, project pioneers, and others. He explores these forms and the seven forces that drive them toward hybrids and across their life cycles.
You will find no better guide to the care and feeding of these extraordinarily varied and vital creatures than this book.
Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University and a founding partner of CoachingOurselves.com. He has won awards from many prestigious academic and practitioner institutions in management and is the author or coauthor of sixteen books. His next project is a series of electronic pamphlets entitled Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal beyond Left, Right, and Center (see www.mintzberg.org).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was one of the best organizational structure and strategy books I have read. Not because it tells you how you should organize a business or do strategy, but because it shows the multiple methods, and their trade-offs.
Further, while it presents categories, as theories, it does so to try and understand the reality of organizational structure, not the often contrived org chart that businesses are expected to have.
In all, this is a breath of fresh air from someone who has a lifetime of work in this field.