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By kapil

E-mail: kapsintouch@gmail.com

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About the book Title: Managers not MBAs: AHard Look at the Soft Practice of

Managing and Management Development Book is broadly divided into two parts:

WHA

T is wrong with management education HOW, it could be changed

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Year: 2004 (464 pages) Author: Henry Mintzberg

He won its George R. Terry Award for writing the bestbook of

1995 (TheRis

eand Fall of Strat

egicPlann

ing). "one of the most original minds in management.- by Financial

Times Fast Company The Financial Times website ranked him the 7th top management

thinker in the world

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Not MBAs Wrong People

Full Time MBA, EMBA

Its never too late to learn,but sometimes too early.

Wrong Ways The advent of cases

Research

Managementbyanalysis,but no synthesis in Analysis

The mathematical manager Where are the soft skills

Infiltrating Ethics

MBAwas introduced in 1908, revised in 1950,yetthere flagship, 1908 degree with a1950s strategy.

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Not MBAs Wrong Consequences

Corruption of the Educational Process There are four things a student should want from a business school, One is to

learn something aboutbusiness disciplines like organizations, accounting,finance, production, and marketing. The second is to deepen an intellectualunderstanding of the relation between activities in business and the major issuesof human existence. The third is to be able to signal that youre the kind ofperson who goes to a certain kind ofbusiness school. And the fourth is to lay thebasis for a set of personal connections.

Confidence-competence= arrogance

Corruption of Managerial Practice Consulting and investmentbanking instead of managing

Corruption of Established Organizations Exploring and exploiting

Corruption of Social Institutions Perfection of means and confusion of goals sees in my opinion to characterize

our age.Albert Einstein

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Developing Managers The IMPM Program

The International Masters in Practicing Management

Five Mindsets The Reflective Mindset, The Analytical Mindset, The Worldly

Mindset, The Collaborative Mindset, The Action Mindset

Learning on the Job Tutoring, Self-Study, Managerial Exchange, Participant

Reactions

Impact of the Learning

Diffusing the Innovation

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Developing True Schools of

Management

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Contd..

The Ms, the Bs, and theAs

drop the Aand replace itby various specialized

designations: an MBM in marketing, or even MBMR inmarketing research, an MBF in finance, and so on. (Butplease, no MBS in strategy: This is neither a specializedfunction nor a bundle of analytical techniques.)

Beyond 40:40:20

notably that 40:40:20 formula of 40 percent of thetime on teaching, 40 percent on research, and 20

percent on administrative work? Given different abilitiesand inclinations, why not 90:0:10, or 20:60:20?

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Critics On virtually every page references to other scholarly and

academic works is given. Mangers today may not get excitedabout where he gets his quotes or the concepts he addresses.

Nearly 200 pages criticizing the MBAeducation is overkill. Atsome point talking about why something is bad isnt helpful.

Detailed history of the growth of MBAschools (going back to1900) seems unnecessary.

Some MBAs make very good managers - of course that's true,Mintzberg does not say otherwise.