I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
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Henry Mintzberg was Canadian academic and author on business and management. Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Creativity — The spark of original thought, invention, and artistic vision
- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world