The Great Myth Is The Manager As Orchestra Conductor. It's This Idea Of Standing On A Pedestal And You Wave Your Baton And Accounting Comes In, And You Wave It Somewhere Else And Marketing Chimes In With Accounting, And They All Sound Very Glorious. But Management Is More Like Orchestra Conducting During Rehearsals, When Everything Is Going Wrong.

-Henry Mintzberg

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The Great Myth Is The Manager As

Henry Mintzberg

The Great Myth Is The Manager As Orchestra Conductor. It's This Idea Of Standing On A Pedestal And You Wave Your Baton And Accounting Comes In, And You Wave It Somewhere Else And Marketing Chimes In With Accounting, And They All Sound Very Glorious. But Management Is More Like Orchestra Conducting During Rehearsals, When Everything Is Going Wrong.

Topic

Somewhere Else

Ideas

Marketing

Five Coordinating Mechanisms Seem To Explain The Fundamental Ways In Which Organizations Coordinate Their Work: Mutual Adjustment, Direct Supervision, Standardization Of Work Processes, Standardization Of Work Outputs, And Standardization Of Worker Skills.

Skills

Organization

Work Out