Rebalancing Society, Henry Mintzberg
Rebalancing Society, Henry Mintzberg
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Rebalancing Society
Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center

Author: Henry Mintzberg

Narrator: Dana Hickox

Unabridged: 2 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/01/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Enough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We require an unprecedented form of radical renewal. In this book Henry Mintzberg offers a new understanding of the root of our current crisis and a strategy for restoring the balance so vital to the survival of our progeny and our planet.

With the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe, Western pundits declared that capitalism had triumphed. They were wrong—balance triumphed. A healthy society balances a public sector of respected governments, a private sector of responsible businesses, and a plural sector of robust communities. Communism collapsed under the weight of its overbearing public sector.

Now the “liberal democracies” are threatened—socially, politically, even economically—by the unchecked excesses of the private sector.

Radical renewal will have to begin in the plural sector, which alone has the inclination and the independence to challenge unacceptable practices and develop better ones. Too many governments have been co-opted by the private sector. And corporate social responsibility can't compensate for the corporate social irresponsibility we see around us “They” won't do it. We shall have to do it, each of us and all of us, not as passive “human resources,” but as resourceful human beings.

Tom Paine wrote in 1776, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” He was right then. Can we be right again now? Can we afford not to be?

About Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal and the winner of. He has won numerous awards from prestigious business, government, and academic institutions. He is the author of the bestselling books Simply Managing, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Managers Not MBAs, and Mintzberg on Management.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on April 03, 2018

Pour Mintzberg, les sociétés contemporaines ne fonctionnent sainement qu'à condition d'atteindre un relatif équilibre entre trois grands secteurs ou piliers, doté chacun d'atouts et de tares qui leur sont propres : le public, le privé et le pluriel. Une part de l'ouvrage consiste à illustrer les sou......more

Goodreads review by Rhys on May 26, 2015

This is a strange little rant - nothing wrong in what he rants about, but it seems that he is so far behind what has become obvious for most over the past thirty years. In sum, not too right, not too left, just right with community pluralism. As Canned Heat sang: Together we'll stand, divided we'll fa......more

Goodreads review by Simøn on October 28, 2024

Réflexion très intéressante sur l’équilibre entre les secteurs économiques publics, privés et communautaires. Un beau projet de société.......more

Goodreads review by Morten on January 13, 2023

I appreciate Mintzberg very much as a management thinker and organization theorist and this little book (a "rant" by the author's own admission) is well-intentioned. However, I must admit I find this book unconvincing. He argues that society must balance evenly state, markets, and what he calls the "......more

Goodreads review by Phu on November 29, 2024

In his work, Rebalancing Society, Henry Mintzberg proposes a compelling way forward for the world, advocating the sharing of power between the private, public and the plural sectors. His critique of private firms is cut through cutting words that exessively due to greed and at the same time the othe......more