Managers, not MBAs : a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development /

Managers, not MBAs : a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development / Henry Mintzberg.

"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...

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Main Author: Mintzberg, Henry.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2004]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Executives > Training of.
Experiential learning.
Active learning.
Management > Study and teaching (Graduate)
Master of business administration degree.
Business education.
Table of Contents:
  • I: 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?
  • II: 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.

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