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Title: Managing
Author: Henry Mintzberg
Narrator: Jim Manchester
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-21-09
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes
Genres: Business, Management
Publisher's Summary:
This landmark book draws on Henry Mintzberg's observations of 29 managers, in business, government, health care, and the social sector, working in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. What he saw - the pressures, the action, the nuances, the blending - compelled him to describe managing as a practice, not a science or a profession, learned primarily through experience and rooted in context.
This book is vintage Mintzberg: iconoclastic, irreverent, carefully researched, myth-breaking. Managing may be the most revealing book yet written about what managers do, how they do it, and how they can do it better.
Winner of the CMI Management Book of the Year!
Members Reviews:
A little bit of reality about management
Would you listen to Managing again? Why?
Of course. As a text book, Management has to be not only listened, but studied.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Do not apply.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
Yes. Some times, the tone was a little dry and not so interesting.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes, it made me laugh many times. Not exactly because it was funny, but because it was brilliant.
Any additional comments?
A must to read book for managers. It help us get out of the wishfull thinking to the real world of management.
The Buddha in Business ?
The most difficult thing is finding a lucid theorist in business. After Peter Drucker, it was difficult finding one. Mintzberg is a genious because he writes about the obvious -- all that other people didn't dare say. Lke: "You don't become a leader/manager in class." "Gurus become famous because they oversell their own side of the story, and real management is the sum total of all those sides." "American management is a failure, although it's the world standard -- the recent crises proved that." "You can't trust someone who works for incentives -- committed managers treat their companies as an extention of their lives." "Internet is overpromoted. Oral communication and concrete presence is the most powerful way of kwowing." "Internet and email fragments your work." "Strategic planning, objectives, adding value, shareholder value and all those concepts are awkward, unrealistic." "Management isn't controlling, planning or measuring. Management is practice."
Excellent book
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I recommend. This is a must read book on management.
What did you like best about this story?
Mintzberg provides a fresh view of management as a practice.
Which scene was your favorite?
His framework around information, people and action is pretty much helpful.
Non Chapter Divisions.
Non Chapter Divisions.
Just two big files for the entire book, you must forward an rewind manually.
:-(
Good cure for insomnia
I don't like to write negative reviews but my goodness did I struggle to finish listening to this book. I can't really put my finger on it but as the other reviewer said; the voice of the reader almost put me to sleep more than once. Having made it through the book I really couldn't tell you what the key messages were, something or other about managing vrs leadership but to be honest that seems like a debate only an academic could care about. If this topic interests you then try anything by Jim Collins instead.
