Managers Not MBAs

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

Henry Mintzberg (Author)

Publication date: 07/15/2005

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Managers Not MBAs
  • Mintzberg, author of such classic bestsellers as The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and The Nature of Managerial Work, was named one of the Top 10 Management Thinkers in the World by the Financial Times
  • The most extensive critique of management education and its effects on management practice ever published-showing how MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences
  • Offers proven alternatives for educating the right people in the right ways with the right consequences
In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some science (analysis). Because conventional MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people with little if any managerial experience, and hence little art and no craft to draw upon, the programs overemphasize science, in the form of analysis and technique. Graduates leave with a distorted impression that management consists entirely of applying formulas to situations, which has had a corrupting, dehumanizing effect not just on the practice of management, but also on our organizations and our social institutions. Turning to how managers should be developed, Mintzberg describes in detail a set of innovative programs designed to address these shortcomings that he and a group of colleagues have put into practice: the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM). Finally, he outlines how business schools can transform themselves to become true schools of management. Managers Not MBAs presents the kind of bold, iconoclastic thinking readers have come to expect from the man Fast Company magazine called "one of the most original minds in management."
  • Mintzberg, author of such classic bestsellers as The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and The Nature of Managerial Work, was named one of the Top 10 Management Thinkers in the World by the Financial Times
  • The most extensive critique of management education and its effects on management practice ever published-showing how MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences
  • Offers proven alternatives for educating the right people in the right ways with the right consequences

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Overview
  • Mintzberg, author of such classic bestsellers as The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and The Nature of Managerial Work, was named one of the Top 10 Management Thinkers in the World by the Financial Times
  • The most extensive critique of management education and its effects on management practice ever published-showing how MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences
  • Offers proven alternatives for educating the right people in the right ways with the right consequences
In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some science (analysis). Because conventional MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people with little if any managerial experience, and hence little art and no craft to draw upon, the programs overemphasize science, in the form of analysis and technique. Graduates leave with a distorted impression that management consists entirely of applying formulas to situations, which has had a corrupting, dehumanizing effect not just on the practice of management, but also on our organizations and our social institutions. Turning to how managers should be developed, Mintzberg describes in detail a set of innovative programs designed to address these shortcomings that he and a group of colleagues have put into practice: the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM). Finally, he outlines how business schools can transform themselves to become true schools of management. Managers Not MBAs presents the kind of bold, iconoclastic thinking readers have come to expect from the man Fast Company magazine called "one of the most original minds in management."
  • Mintzberg, author of such classic bestsellers as The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and The Nature of Managerial Work, was named one of the Top 10 Management Thinkers in the World by the Financial Times
  • The most extensive critique of management education and its effects on management practice ever published-showing how MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences
  • Offers proven alternatives for educating the right people in the right ways with the right consequences
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