Rethinking Management Education And Its Models
In聽their book, The Business School In The Twenty-first Century, Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange and Jagdish Sheth share insights on designing the business school of the future and how to make it work.
...听For many years, the most strident and important critic of management education has been Professor Henry Mintzberg. In his book Managers, Not MBAs, which summarises and synthesizes much of his thinking, he states in his preface:聽 鈥淚 was simply finding too much of a disconnect between the practice of management that was becoming clearer to me and what went on in classrooms, my own included, intended to develop managers.鈥� More importantly, he argues that management is not a science: 鈥淢anagement certainly applies science: managers have to use all the knowledge they can get, from the sciences and elsewhere. But management is more of an art, based on 鈥榠nsight鈥�, 鈥榲ision鈥�,聽 鈥榠ntuition鈥�.鈥� - See more at:
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