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Managers Not MBAs

A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development

By Henry Mintzberg

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Henry Mintzberg believes that both management and management education are deeply troubled, but that neither can be changed without changing the other.

Mintzberg asserts that conventional MBA classrooms overemphasize the science of management while ignoring its art and denigrating its craft, leavin Continue

Henry Mintzberg believes that both management and management education are deeply troubled, but that neither can be changed without changing the other.

Mintzberg asserts that conventional MBA classrooms overemphasize the science of management while ignoring its art and denigrating its craft, leaving a distorted impression of its practice. We need to get back to a more engaging style of management, to build stronger organizations, not bloated share prices. This calls for another approach to management education, whereby practicing managers learn from their own experience. We need to build the art and the craft back into management education, and into management itself.

Mintzberg examines what is wrong with our current system. Conventional MBA programs are mostly for young people with little or no experience. These are the wrong people. Programs to train them emphasize analysis and technique. These are the wrong ways. They leave graduates with the false impression that they have been trained as managers, which has had a corrupting effect on the practice of management as well as on our organizations and societies. There are the wrong consequences.

Mintzberg describes a very different approach to management education, which encourages practicing managers to learn from their own experience. No one can create a manager in a classroom. But existing managers can significantly improve their practice in a thoughtful classroom that makes use of that experience.

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  • Read this book in the past, but could not find the notes. Mintzberg I have always admired for his clarity in his articles and books on strategy. This book is a mustread for all who have an MBA, but the over 400 pages might be a bit too step for many.

    Mintzberg comments on MBA’s are well known, the ... (continue)

    Read this book in the past, but could not find the notes. Mintzberg I have always admired for his clarity in his articles and books on strategy. This book is a mustread for all who have an MBA, but the over 400 pages might be a bit too step for many.

    Mintzberg comments on MBA’s are well known, the source can be found here: http://www.mintzberg.org/ When I was once fortunate to attend a lecture by Porter, I recall observing -young- business students trying to grasp when the man was really lecturing about. In my opinion they failed the context. I did my MBA (in Information Systems) within a few years after my BA. I was really ‘just an eye-opener” into other fields of knowledge. And it got me really reading books.

    In particular I was looking for chapter 11 in this one (on thinking patterns for learning & shaping managers) and found it (…). I will get back to this book in due time. It deserves deep reading.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 464 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1576752755
  • ISBN-13: 9781576752753
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Pub date: May 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1097 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and eBook
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