Managers, not MBAs
a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development
by Henry Mintzberg · first published 2004
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"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 M
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There's an interesting book called "Managers Not MBAs", written by a professor of business, which talks about why the MBA system is pretty broken. IMO, studying business as an undergrad is pretty useless. Study something real (science or engineering), and…
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