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Deliberate and emergent strategy (Mintzberg)

This tool will help you:

  • To not be enslaved to strategic planning
  • Realise that sometimes, and in some sectors, things move too fast
  • Listen to your line managers, carry out pilot projects, tease the market

About this tool

‘And now for something completely different,’ Monty Python might say here. Having set out, in the last few tools, the main proponents of the market-based and resource-based schools of strategy, we turn to an iconoclast – Henry Mintzberg of McGill University.

Is all this strategising a waste of time? Worse, could it steer a company in the wrong direction, lead to wrong decisions, wrong actions?

Is strategic planning too restrictive, too structured, too analytical, too centralised, ...

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