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Rebalancing Society
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Rebalancing Society

Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center

Henry Mintzberg
Berrett-Koehler, 2015

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Innovative
  • Eye Opening

Recommendation

In this call to arms, Canadian academic Henry Mintzberg cites American revolutionary Thomas Paine with no shortage of rebellion and urgency. Mintzberg argues that corporate capitalism has become too greedy for the common good. He calls for an end to rampant commercialism and short-term profiteering. Mintzberg, a best-selling management writer, makes a compelling case that US capitalism is out of kilter. His diagnosis is clear, but his cures for the problem seem murky. While always politically neutral, getAbstract recommends his intriguing, avid treatise to business leaders, policy makers and activists seeking a strong contrarian view of US society.

Take-Aways

  • A “balanced society” has three legs: a private sector, a public sector and a “plural sector” – the nonprofits, and religious and cultural groups that tie societies together.
  • The concentration of wealth and the ever-increasing corporate power can kill the American dream.
  • American society once illustrated “self-interest rightly understood.”

About the Author

Best-selling management author Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal.

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