Henry Mintzberg, the great deviant in the field of management, launches a blockbuster masterpiece to reveal the rules of survival and dimensionality of organizations in the AI era.
In a complex and ever-changing world, organizations are like breathing, penetrating into every moment of human life. We are born in the hospital, receive education in school, achieve success in business, and finally say goodbye in the funeral home. However, how do these seemingly ordinary "strange creatures" actually work? Mintzberg, a world-renowned management thinker, has made a wonderful update and revision of the classic book "The Effective Organization" with half a century of observation, research and consulting experience, revealing the underlying logic and core power of organizational operations for readers, and drawing a clear map that can penetrate the essence of the organization.
With his consistent scalpel-like insights, Mintzberg analyzes the interior of an organization, showing multiple perspectives for observing and managing organizations, covering a series of important propositions about organizations: 7 organizational types, 7 dominant organizational forces, 6 internal coordination mechanisms, 5 organizational roles... It provides managers with a complete set of "organizational diagnostic tools" to help managers escape from the trap of popular concepts and rationally design an organizational structure that suits their own environment.
Faced with the paradigm shift in the AI era and the continuous emergence of new business models and organizational forms, Mintzberg did not stop at retelling classic theories, but pointed out with inspiration: "There is no best way to manage organizations." "In the world of organizations, nothing is sacrosanct!" "We need more flies and fewer bees to design organizational structures." The book reveals the challenges and transformation paths of organizations in different life cycles, and points out the future evolutionary direction of organizations.
