Enough! Enough of the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves. We require a form of radical renewal unprecedented in the human experience.

Summary on the back cover

“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don’t want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”

In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.

The problem is not management per se but a form of remote-control management detached from the operations yet determined to control them. It reorganizes relentlessly, measures like mad, promotes a heroic form of leadership, favors competition where the need is for cooperation, and pretends that the calling of health care should be managed like a business.

(out of print, but available here for free download; originally published by Prentice Hall, 1983)— draws together the literature about power within and around organizations; an extension of my book on organizational structuring

Probing into strategies, actually pursued of ten different organizations across several decades of their histories....toward a general theory of strategy formation

(with Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel; Pearson, 2005)—fun bytes and bites about strategy, shown to be a lot more—and less—than you ever imagined

(with J. Lampel, S. Ghoshal, J.B. Quinn; second edition, Prentice Hall, 1991)—selected readings and cases, all heavily edited

(with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joe Lampel; Free Press and Prentice-Hall International, 2nd edition 2009)—as the subtitle says, “A Guided tour Through The Wilds Of Strategic Management"

(Free Press and Prentice-Hall International, 1994)—historical review of the process, very critical, though ends on a positive note

Managing (Berrett-Koehler and Pearson, 2009)—about the characteristics, roles, varieties, conundrums, and effectiveness of managing. See the Appendix, about the day in the life of 29 managers here.

(Prentice-Hall, 1979)—attempt to draw together the empirical literature on structuring, using five configurations as integrating devices—my most integrated book