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Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look At The Soft Practice Of Managing And Management Development - Softcover

Mintzberg, Henry

 
9781576753514: Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look At The Soft Practice Of Managing And Management Development
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1576753514 ISBN 13: 9781576753514
Verlag: Pub Group West, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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INTRODUCTION

This is a book about management education that is about management. I believe that both are deeply troubled, but neither can be changed without changing the other.

The trouble with "management" education is that it is business education, and leaves a distorted impression of management. Management is a practice that has to blend a good deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some science (analysis). An education that overemphasizes the science encourages a style of managing I call "calculating" or, if the graduates believe themselves to be artists, as increasing numbers now do, a related style I call "heroic." Enough of them, enough of that. We don't need heroes in positions of influence any more than technocrats. We need balanced, dedicated people who practice a style of managing that can be called "engaging." Such people believe that their purpose is to leave behind stronger organizations, not just higher share prices. They do not display hubris in the name of leadership.

The development of such managers will require another approach to management education, likewise engaging, that encourages practicing managers to learn from their own experience. In other words, we need to build the craft and the art of managing into management education and thereby bring these back into the practice of managing.

Follow the chapter titles of this book into the chapters, and you will read about management education-Part I on what I believe is wrong with it, Part II on how it could be changed. But look within the chapters, and you will read about management itself-again what I believe is wrong with it and how it could be changed. To pick up on the subtitle, here we take a hard look at the soft practice of managing, alongside that of management development. There are plenty of books that provide soft looks at the hard practice of managing. I believe we need to face management as it is, in a serious way; it is too important to be left to most of what appears on the shelves of bookstores. Easy formulas and quick fixes are the problems in management today, not the solutions.

I have written this book for all thoughtful readers interested in management education and practice: developers, educators, managers, and just plain interested observers. I mean this to include MBA applicants, students, and graduates, at least ones who harbor doubts about this degree. If what I write here is true, then they especially should be reading this book.
Readers interested in management education will get the messages about management practice as they go along. Readers interested in management itself-this hard look at that soft practice-can focus on particular parts of the book. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 contain the essence of this material. Before reading this, however, I suggest you look at the introduction to Part I and the first part of Chapter 1 (pages Part One-"EXPERIENCE" IN MBA ADMISSIONS) as well as, from Chapter 2, pages Management By Analysis-Infiltrating Ethics, The Case for Cases-Secondhandedness, and The Impression Left by MBA Education. Beyond Chapter 6, I recommend pages 259-Proposition 7. All of the above should be blended into a process of "experienced reflection." and especially Toward Engaging Management-Table 9.4 TWO WAYS TO MANAGE in Chapter 9, pages Module I: Managing Self-The Reflective Mindset-Table 11.1 DIMENSIONS OF THE MODULES in Chapter 11, and pages Developing Managers IV-IMPact and Does the IMPM Benefit? in Chapter 13.

I should add that there are all kinds of illustrative materials in the boxes that accompany the text. Reading these will give much of the flavor of my arguments.

Part I of this book is called "Not MBAs." Some people may see it as a rant; I wrote it as a serious critique of what I believe to be a deeply flawed practice. If you have anything to do with MBAs, whether hiring them, supporting them, teaching them, or being

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Verlag
Pub Group West
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1576753514
ISBN 13 
9781576753514
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480
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