‘We live in a world of organizations – and we do not understand them’

This is one of the statements Henry Mintzberg, one of the leading thinkers in the field of Management, made when I interviewed him for my Leadership 2.0 Podcast about his latest book ‘Understanding Organizations…Finally’.

During our conversation, we discussed the following topics:

0️⃣1️⃣ The importance for organizations to get their structure ‘right’
0️⃣2️⃣ The evolvement of Henry’s thinking about organizations
0️⃣3️⃣ ‘Every (organization) form contains the seeds of its own destruction’
0️⃣4️⃣ ‘Emergent structures’ versus large-scale reorganizations
0️⃣5️⃣ The fit between the leader and the structure of the organization
0️⃣6️⃣ The structures of Apple and Tesla and the personalities of their founders
0️⃣7️⃣ The complementary role of conflict and culture in organizations
0️⃣8️⃣ The relationship between the structure and the culture of an organization
0️⃣9️⃣ The gap between formulators and implementers of corporate strategies
1️⃣0️⃣ The interest in structuring organizations in academia and business

You can watch or listen to this podcast episode on:

▶ YouTube https://youtu.be/sDWnSgQNmKs

▶ Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/henry-mintzberg-understanding-organizations-finally/id1511327057?i=1000656746374

▶ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/0npqef0iZdAvrOeTiRLyfV?si=VIJT0CjrRF6Zhm6379JIHg

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