1. Our World of Organizations Part I: Re-Viewing the Organization 2. The Players and the Parts 3. The Art, Craft, and Science of Organizing Part II: The Building Blocks of Organizational Design 4. The Mechanisms to Coordinate 5. The Elements of Design 6. Design in Context Part III: Four Fundamental Forms of Organization 7. The Personal Enterprise 8. The Programmed Machine 9. The Professional Assembly 10. The Project Pioneer 11. The Four together Part IV: Seven Basic Forces for Organizing 12. A Force for Each Form 13. Three Forces for All the Forms Part V: Three More Forms 14. The Divisional Form 15. The Community Ship 16. The Political Arena Part VI: Balancing the Forces across the Forms 17. In Praise of the Anchored Form 18. Hail to the Hybrids 19. Riding the Life Cycle across the Forms Part VII: Organizing Beyond Sevens 20. Organizations Outward Bound 21. Opening Up Organization Design
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, the winner of awards from the most prestigious academic and practitioner institutions in management (Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management, Association of Management Consulting Firms, and others), and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees from around the world. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books.