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On this audiobook, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how professionals are educated and how management, as a result, is utilized, and makes thoughtful - and questionable - tips for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg creates, is a practice that mixes significant amounts of build (experience) with a degree of art (insight) plus some science (evaluation). Because classic MBA programs are designed almost exclusively for young people with little if any managerial experience, and therefore little art no craft to attract upon, the programs overemphasize knowledge, by means of analysis and technique. Graduates leave with a distorted impression that management consists entirely of applying formulas to situations, which includes acquired a corrupting, dehumanizing effect not just on the practice of management, but also on our organizations and our interpersonal institutions. Turning to how professionals should be developed, Mintzberg identifies in detail a couple of innovative programs made to addresses these shortcomings that he and several colleagues have apply: the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM). Finally, he outlines how business academic institutions can transform themselves to become true academic institutions of management. Professionals Not MBAs presents the kind of vivid, iconoclastic thinking people have come to expect from the man Fast Company publication called "one of the most original imagination in management".
