MythSite.org for further Insight

This website has been prepared in conjunction with my book, Bust those Management Myths, to supplement its illustrative materials. The book describes ten myths, each followed by one or more Insights—mostly stories about the myth or about deMYTHtifying it. With limited space there, here are some additional Insights that may be of interest to you. You can click on each, in the outline below.

Henry Mintzberg, July 2026

Table of Contents

Additional Insight for Myth 1
Lofty leadership tops mere management

Transformation by lofty leadership? Or by engaged management throughout? 

Additional Insights for Myth 3
There is one best way to organize

The Programming Imperative

Business as the best way? 

Additional Insight for Myth 4
Management is a profession that relies on the evidence of analysis

Enough of MORE. We need better:
How stock markets kill companies and communities

Additional Insights for Myth 5
MBA education prepares students to manage

Reaching out to Social Learning

Stories from Developing Naturally

Additional Insight for Myth 6
Managers plan, organize, coordinate, and control

Networks are not Communities

Additional Insighsfor Myth 7
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it

Analyst: analyze thyself

Productive and Destructive Productivity

Porterian vs Peterian Effectiveness

Additional Insights for Myth 8
Proper strategies are planned

The Honda Story, as Learning before Planning

Some notes about strategy

Imaging Strategy

Additional Insights for Myth 9
To make decisions, think in order to act

Seeing every which way

Zooming ahead? Not so fast!

Additional Insight for Myth 10
Our theory is true

Downsizing as 21st Century Bloodletting

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