Wake Up! The World Is Out of Balance and If You Do Nothing You Are Part of the Problem: An Interview With Henry Mintzberg

Abstract

Henry Mintzberg has made—and continues to make—fundamental contributions to various areas of management research, practice, and education. In this “Meet the Person” conversation, he discloses part of his journey in pursuit of a rebalanced society. He talked to us about the reasons and the process behind the writing of his book Rebalancing Society, in which he argues that a healthy society is one where there is a balance across its public, private, and plural sectors. This conversation with Henry Mintzberg offers perspectives that are inspiring and provocative. Overall, it also reveals his expectations of how the framework provided by the book can help to reframe the relation among different parts of society to bring our planet back into balance.