写给管理者的睡前故事 – Bedtime Stories for Managers by Henry Mintzberg

通过犀利讽刺的小故事、有意境的配图、简短的观点，本书引发读者对管理的深刻思考，学习制定策略、组织团队、分辨数据，成为脚踏实地的专业管理者。

管理大师明茨伯格说这是他迄今为止最“严肃”的一本书。书中一系列的比喻等你发现：“牛和花园”、“切饼干和炒鸡蛋”、“蜜蜂般的董事会”等等。这本书献给所有那些吃着炒鸡蛋，帮自己的组织像牛一样运作的管理者。

If you’re like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to an audiobook that’s designed especially for you! But you won’t find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn’t jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled 42 of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management.

The moral here is this: Managers need to leave their castles and find out what’s actually going on in their kingdoms. And like real bedtime stories, these essays have metaphors galore. So prepare to grow strategies like weeds and organize like a cow. Discover the maestro myth of managing, find the soft underbelly of hard data, and learn why downsizing is bloodletting and your board should be a bee.

Mintzberg writes, “Just try not to be outraged by anything you read, because some of my most outrageous ideas turn out to be my best. They just take a while to become obvious.”