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You Can Teach All Sorts Of Things That Improve The Practice Of Management With People Who Are Managers. What You Cannot Do Is Teach Management To Somebody Who Is Not A Manager, The Way You Cannot Teach Surgery To Somebody Whose Not A Surgeon.

-Henry Mintzberg

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You Can Teach All Sorts Of Things

Henry Mintzberg

You Can Teach All Sorts Of Things That Improve The Practice Of Management With People Who Are Managers. What You Cannot Do Is Teach Management To Somebody Who Is Not A Manager, The Way You Cannot Teach Surgery To Somebody Whose Not A Surgeon.

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