Dean Peter Todd and Professor Henry Mintzberg Offer Their Takes on the Connected Work World

Dean Peter Todd and Professor Henry Mintzberg offer their takes on the connected work world

To anyone who works in an office, it’s quite clear the proliferation of mobile computing technologies – from BlackBerries to laptops to iPhones – has a huge effect on the way managers and other workers go about their daily business. What may be surprising is that not many academics have researched these effects.

Desautels Faculty of Management Prof. Henry Mintzberg, who literally wrote the book on the nature of managerial work, and Dean Peter Todd, who has studied the effect of information technology on decision-making, shared with The Reporter some informed speculation about the way email, in particular, influences management work – for better and for worse. They also offered advice for minimizing the downside.

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