Mind Challenge Index

  1. 1

    • Understanding Organizations

    • Guidelines CoachingOurselves Module

    • Management Happenings (10 min.)
  2. 2

    • Topic Overview (1 min.)
  3. 3

    • Mixing Up Organizations (5 min.)

    • What Species Is Your Organization? (10 min.)

    • Four Forms of Organizations (3 min.)

    • Chains, Hubs, Webs, and Sets (3 min.)

    • Different Cultures (2 min.)

    • Characteristics of Organizations (10 min.)

    • Exercise: Considering Your Own Organization (15 min.)

    • Beware! (2 min.)

    • The Forms As Forces (3 min)

    • Combining the Forces and Forms (10 min.)

  4. 4

    • Wrap up (5 min.)

    • That's it!

    • Reading and References

    • Appendix: An Aid to Understanding

    • Appendix: An Aid to Understanding, cont.

Instructor(s)

Professor

Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Canada, is an internationally renowned speaker and author on organization and management. He has been described by Tom Peters as “perhaps the world’s premier management thinker”. Henry has published 170 articles and seventeen books, including Managers Not MBAs, from which CoachingOurselves has sprung. See www.mintzberg.org.