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Understanding Organizations...Finally!
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Understanding Organizations...Finally!

by Henry Mintzberg
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
5h 53m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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PART VII

ORGANIZING BEYOND SEVENS

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Every once in a while, a question comes along that stops us in our tracks. Alain Nöel, when he was a doctoral student at McGill before joining École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal, asked me such a question. Having read an early draft of the original version of this book, Alain asked: Was I playing jigsaw puzzle or LEGO with these pieces? In other words, were they meant to be assembled into a few established forms, or to be used to create new ones (as LEGO was, before it added so many three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles to its product lines).

I realized that I had been playing jigsaw puzzle but should ...

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