From the web site for Management Quality : www.inutsikt.se

"The five minds of a manager" (Jonathan Gosling, Henry Mintzberg, Harvard Business Review, November, 2003)

The authors describe the management development program they have designed, based on the thesis that no one wants to be a good manager, but everyone wants to become a great leader. They have described five managerial mind-sets:

1. The reflective mind-set (managing self).
2. The analytical mind-set (managing organizations)
3. The worldly mind-set (managing context)
4. The collaborative mind-set (managing relationships).
   They compare "heroic management" (based on self) with "engaging management" (based on collaboration).
5. The action mind-set (managing change)

Since 1996 this has been implemented in International Masters Program in Practicing Management, a management development program where five countries take responsibility each for one main area (mind-set): UK, Canada, India, Japan, and France.

Inutsikt's comments :
The article explains these mind-sets, but does not provide much guidance on how to use the concept. The Masters program is no doubt very useful for each participant. But they are few and the approach is, just like the traditional management development programs that the authors want to avoid, totally directed towards individuals.
Without an organizational approach that leads to new behaviors among all managers and staff the value for the organization risks to be marginal.