Telling It Like It Ought To Be
评论明茨伯格《管理者而非MBA》一书，指出MBA项目未能有效培养管理技能，而体验式学习项目能真正促进管理学习，对全球社会有深远影响。
This article comments on the book on management education, titled Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, by Henry Mintzberg. The book comes in two parts. Part I describes and illustrates how and why the typical Master of Business Administration program does little to develop managerial skills and how the skills it does create are often antithetical to effective management. The second part of the book provides an exciting demonstration that it does not have to be this way--thoughtful, experientially anchored programs can be designed to stimulate meaningful learning about the process of managing and its effect on organizations. In terms of presentation logic, Mintzberg's two messages appear in the proper sequence: first the problem and then the solution. In terms of importance, however, the sequence is reversed. The messages of the second part, both the obvious impact which well-designed learning opportunities can have on managers' thinking and the deeper underlying message about the impact such learning could have on the global society are far more important than what is wrong with Master of Business Administration programs. Mintzberg suggests ways that business education could be reshaped to take an even more advantage of its capability to produce functional specialists and how pieces of he elaborate management development program be described might be incorporated into less exotic offerings.