Mintzberg's role model aims to describe how we work as managers. Mintzberg suggests to reflect on our current management, to improve. This short presentation summarizes the potential for improvement as described in his article "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact". For now this article is in French. I will an English version too. Valentijn de Leeuw, PARTICEPS sarl, v.deleeuw@controlchaingroup.com