Henry Mintzberg Canadian academic and author on business and management

Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Canada, is an internationally renowned speaker and author on organization and management.

How can you recognize communityship?

That’s easy. You have found it when you walk into an organization and are struck by the energy in the place, the personal commitment of the people and their collective engagement in what they are doing.

These people don’t have to be formally empowered because they are naturally engaged. The organization respects them so they respect it.

They don’t live in mortal fear of being fired en mass because some “leader” hasn’t made his or her numbers.

Imagine an economy made up of such organizations.

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