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Purpose and benefits

Henry Mintzberg is one of the most interesting of management thinkers. He has made a major contribution to the study of strategy as a craft, the roles of managers, and management education.

He has generally eschewed the guru seminar trail and forged a unique intellectual path.

His approach to the areas he has researched has been similar. He is never content to accept what he is told or follow the established line. He prefers to take the mechanism apart to see for himself how it works. His characteristic approach is shown when he examines what managers really do, instead of accepting what they say they do or telling them what they ought to do, and when he investigates the field of strategy, the area where he carried out perhaps his most influential work.