Henry Mintzberg

Managers Not MBAs (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both. "The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences," Mintzberg writes. "Using the classroom to help develop people already practicing management is a fine idea, but pretending to create managers out of people who have never managed is a sham." Leaders cannot be created in a classroom. They arise in context. But people who already practice management can significantly improve their effectiveness given the opportunity to learn thoughtfully from their own experience. Mintzberg calls for a more engaging approach to managing and a more reflective approach to management education. He also outlines how business schools can become true schools of management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609940447
• Artikelnr.: 55877933

Autorenporträt

Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was named Distinguished Scholar for the Year 2000 by the Academy of Management, served as President of the Strategic Management Society from 1988-1991, is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (the first from a manage-ment faculty), and has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada and of l'Ordre Nationale du Quebec. He is the author of 12 books, including The Nature of Managerial Work, The Structuring of Organiza¬tions, Mintzberg on Management, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, and Strategy Safari.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction PART ONE NOT MBAS Wrong People Wrong Ways Wrong Consequences I: Corruption of the Educational Process Wrong Consequences II: Corruption of Managerial Practice Wrong Consequences III: Corruption of Established Organizations Wrong Consequences IV: Corruption of Social Institutions New MBAs? PART TWO DEVELOPING MANAGERS Management Development in Practice Developing Management Education Developing Managers I: The IMPM Program Developing Managers II: Five Mindsets Developing Managers III: Learning on the Job Developing Managers IV: Impact of the Learning Developing Managers V: Diffusing the Innovation Developing True Schools of Management Bibliography Index About the Author

Rezensionen

"[A] constantly stimulating book... It should be required reading for anyone who has the qualification, wants one, or just wonders what all the fuss is about." -The Economist ""...an inspiring and insightful book." -Globe and Mail "... a powerful statement and a terrific read.... What gives the book its resonance is that it is 'a book about management education that is about management.'" -The Observer "...a rousing manifesto for the thoroughgoing reform of management education and how we think about it." -The Financial Times