{"id":303,"date":"2004-06-10T02:11:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T02:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2004-06-10T02:11:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T02:11:50","slug":"the_mba_menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"The MBA Menace&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/83\/mbamenace.html\" TITLE=\"Fast Company Article\">Yuko Shimizu<\/a> on Harvey Mintzburg&#8217;s new book: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=BQv11nj9UJ&#038;isbn=1576752755&#038;itm=1\" TITLE=\"BN Link\">Managers not MBA&#8217;s<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Congratulations! You have a sparkling new degree, highly prized in this world. You have learned a great many things about business. You have invested two years of your life, not to mention lost wages and a small fortune in tuition, in this impressive undertaking. As a result, you are fully qualified to go out and become a menace to society.<br \/>\nGranted, this isn&#8217;t fully the fault of your school. Nothing personal, but full-time MBA programs by their nature attract many of the wrong people&#8211;too impatient and analytical, with little experience in management itself. These may be fine traits for students, but they can be tragically ill-suited for managers.<br \/>\nConventional MBA programs then compound the error by giving the wrong impression of management: that managers are important people disconnected from the daily work of making products and producing services; that managing is largely about decision making through analysis; that managers pronounce deliberate strategies for everyone else to implement; and worst of all, that by sitting still in a classroom for a couple of years, you are now ready to manage anything.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuko Shimizu on Harvey Mintzburg&#8217;s new book: Managers not MBA&#8217;s Congratulations! You have a sparkling new degree, highly prized in this world. You have learned a great many things about business. You have invested two years of your life, not to mention lost wages and a small fortune in tuition, in this impressive undertaking. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}