Managing

A half century ago Peter Drucker put management on the map. Leadership has since put it off. In his latest book, Henry Mintzberg aims to restore management to its proper place: front and center. “We should be seeing managers as leaders,” he writes, “and leadership as management practiced well.” This book is classic Mintzberg: iconoclastic, irreverent, carefully researched, myth-breaking. Managing may be the most revealing book yet written about what managers do, how they do it, and how they can do it better.

• Are leaders really more important than managers?
• Where has all the judgment gone?
• Has management style been over-rated?
• Is e-mail destroying management practice?
• How are managers supposed to connect when the very nature of their jobs disconnects them from what they are managing?