Managers Not MBAs
A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
$39.75
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2018
Summary
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. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781576753514 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1576753514 |
| Author: | Henry Mintzberg |
| Publisher: | Berrett-Koehler |
| Imprint: | Berrett-Koehler |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 675g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 159mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Berrett-koehler |
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Critics Review
“[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
About The Author
Henry Mintzberg
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.
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