Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development Audiobook (Free)

In Managers, Not MBAs, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are informed and how administration, because of this, is practiced, making thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both.

Administration, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends significant amounts of art (experience) with a degree of artwork (insight) and some research (analysis). Because conventional MBA programs were created almost specifically for teenagers with little managerial encounter, and about Managers Not really MBAs: A DIFFICULT Look at the Gentle Practice of Managing and Management Advancement hence little art and no craft to draw upon, the applications overemphasize research, by means of analysis and technique. Graduates keep having a distorted impression that administration consists completely of applying formulas to circumstances, which has had a corrupting, dehumanizing effect not just in the practice of administration but also on our businesses and our social institutions.

Turning to how managers should be created, Mintzberg describes a couple of innovative programs made to address these shortcomings: the International Experts in Exercising Management (IMPM). Finally, he outlines how business schools can transform themselves to be true institutions of management.

Managers, Not MBAs presents the type of bold, iconoclastic thinking visitors have come to expect from the person Fast Company publication called “probably one of the most first minds in management.”