Managing in the public sector can be characterized as “managing on the edges”, between politics and administration and between administration and operations, as well as between external pressures and internal processes. Interestingly, this seems to come out most sharply, not in the upper...

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Welcome to Simply Managing -- 1 Managing Beyond the Myths -- What management is and isn't -- 2 Managing Relentlessly -- The pressures of managerial work -- 3 Managing Information, People, Action -- A model of managing -- 4...

To pronounce any environment permanently turbulent is as silly as calling it permanently stable. Environments are always changing in some dimensions while remaining stable in others.

There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organizations. This book shares the results of Henry Mintzberg's investigation into this, conducted over several decades, using case studies...