133: Strategic Planning & Design -- Henry Mintzberg (Part 1)

This month we return to the works of Henry Mintzberg, whose book Simply Managing we covered way back in Episode 14. This time, we decided to cover a number of works covering broad themes of strategy development and organizational planning, along with critiques of extant design school works. We divided five works among us to discuss in which he argues about why strategies and plans so often seem to fail, why planners seem so out of touch with the rest of the organization, and why even the processes of strategy development and planning may be inherently flawed.

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133: Strategic Planning & Design -- Henry Mintzberg (Part 1) is an episode from Talking About Organizations Podcast by Talking About Organizations.

This episode is 00:46:11 long.

This episode was published on Jan 20, 2026.

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