Bedtime Stories for Managers has been designed for those managers who have sleepless nights. In forty-two concise, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and onto solid ground. He has culled the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management. Mintzberg depicts that managers need to leave their castles and find out what's actually going on in their kingdoms. It is a playful book with a serious message: management has to come down from lofty leadership to grounded engagement. As such, it explains ways to discover the maestro myth of managing and find the soft underbelly of hard data. And like real bedtime stories, the book has metaphors galore so that the readers can prepare to grow strategies like weeds and organize like a cow.