View from the top: Henry Mintzberg on strategy and management

Executive Overview This is the second contribution to our Crosstalk series, a collaboration between The Executive and European Management Journal created to encourage dialogue and exchange of ideas among leading management scholars in North America and Europe. Crosstalk spans the two journals, and the content of each journal complements, rather than duplicates, that of the other. In this Crosstalk, Henry Mintzberg from Canada and Constantinos Markides from England discuss their work in strategy and management, including their current thinking on major ideas that have shaped these fields and emerging concepts. An interview with Henry Mintzberg appears in The Executive, followed by a commentary from Dr. Markides and a reply by Dr. Mintzberg. The August 2000 issue of European Management Journal uses the same format and includes an interview with Dr. Markides, a commentary by Mintzberg, and Markides's reply. Abstracts of the interviews and biographical sketches are published in each journal. To gain a full pe...