Manager, not MBA

Author: Henry Mintzberg / Yang Bin
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book—I spent four years writing it, fifteen years developing it, and thirty-five years thinking about it.—Henry Mintzberg. One of the world's most influential ten management gurus, Henry Mintzberg reflects on the MBA education. Renowned masterpiece, passionately launched. MBA readers read this book to reflect on the shortcomings of education; managers read this book to explore the path of growth. Mintzberg (Henry Mintzberg) is the most important scholar in the field of global management and strategy today. As a recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Academic Contribution Award from the Academy of Management in the United States, Mintzberg has always been a fierce critic of the prevailing MBA education model: "MBA educates the wrong people with the wrong methods for the wrong reasons." Therefore, he issued a shocking declaration: to completely reform traditional MBA education. This is the book "Managers, Not MBAs." Breaking down without building up is not the action of a rational builder. Professor Mintzberg has proposed important suggestions for innovation in management education, supported by the results of IMPM practice: breaking down the boundaries between various management disciplines, not arranging courses according to marketing, finance, human resources, etc., but designing them according to the five mindsets of a manager (the reflective mindset of managing oneself, the cooperative mindset of managing relationships, the analytical mindset of managing the organization, the pragmatic mindset of managing the environment, and the action mindset of managing change). It particularly emphasizes the mutual verification and support between book concepts and personal management experience, creating many ways to extend management education beyond the classroom, such as reflective essays, exchange visits, field research, and entrepreneurial activities. This book attempts to provide a comprehensive introduction and evaluation of Mintzberg's management education ideas, allowing people to fully understand the concepts and methods of future management education models. "Managers, Not MBAs" contains three very important themes—(1) Critical thinking about MBAs, which was originally business management education but has now distorted management practice; (2) What should be done in a serious educational process to cultivate managers; (3) Management practice itself, which has deviated from the track, bringing dysfunctional consequences to society.