{"id":5049,"date":"2011-10-30T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2011\/10\/earmarked-organizationalpathologies-and-ohmyitstrue-mcgill-university-management\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:32:15","slug":"earmarked-organizationalpathologies-and-ohmyitstrue-mcgill-university-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2011\/10\/earmarked-organizationalpathologies-and-ohmyitstrue-mcgill-university-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Earmarked #organizationalpathologies and #ohmyitstrue  &quot;McGill University management&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earmarked #organizationalpathologies and #ohmyitstrue  &quot;McGill University management professor, Henry Mintzberg has been extensively studying, teaching, writing, and consulting on management effectiveness, strategy formulation, and planning since 1968. His book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, reports on the exhaustive research and thinking he\u2019s been doing on this popular management technique.<\/p>\n<p>In a passage on neurotic and compulsive management he writes, \u201cabove all, the machine organization (what I call Technomanagement)\u2026is obsessed with control, first of the workers, but everyone else after that\u2026all this is done to ensure the stability of the operations and the smooth functioning of the bureaucratic machine.\u201d He concludes that the biggest reason strategic planning doesn\u2019t work stems from \u201cthe planning school\u2019s grand fallacy: Because analysis is not synthesis, strategic planning is not strategy formulation (his emphasis)\u2026ultimately the term strategic planning has proved to be an oxymoron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.innovationexcellence.com%2Fcomponents%2Fcom_wordpress%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2Fimages-2-150x150.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.innovationexcellence.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/strategic-planning-smothers-innovation\/'>Innovation Excellence | Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education &#8211; powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103404136100035905482\/posts\/4hvPMncgoUp' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103404136100035905482\/posts\/4hvPMncgoUp' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Post imported by Google+Blog.  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