Book description
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."
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
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Part One: Not MBAs
- Chapter 1: Wrong People
- Chapter 2: Wrong Ways
- Chapter 3: Wrong Consequences I: Corruption of the Educational Process
- Chapter 4: Wrong Consequences II: Corruption of Managerial Practice
- Chapter 5: Wrong Consequences III: Corruption of Established Organizations
- Chapter 6: Wrong Consequences IV: Corruption of Social Institutions
- Chapter 7: New MBAs?
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Part Two: Developing Managers
- Chapter 8: Management Development in Practice
- Chapter 9: Developing Management Education
- Chapter 10: Developing Managers I: The IMPM Program
- Chapter 11: Developing Managers II: Five Mindsets
- Chapter 12: Developing Managers III: Learning on the Job
- Chapter 13: Developing Managers IV: Impact of the Learning
- Chapter 14: Developing Managers V: Diffusing the Innovation
- Chapter 15: Developing True Schools of Management
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Managers Not MBAs
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2005
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781576755112
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