Articles Archive for 29 June 2007
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I don't know if there's a secret magic pixie reading WorkPlay, but I found a nice one-year subscription to Harvard Business Review waiting for me in the mail today. Thank you secret magic pixie, whoever you are. From the latest issue of HBR, here's some juicy thinking from Henry Mintzberg. It falls under the article title of Productivity Is Killing American Enterprise. Consider that our organizations are organic systems. They exist only because of the people who operate within these systems. Here's Professor Mintzberg's advice: Treat the enterprise as a community of engaged members, not a collection of free agents....

