In Managers, Not MBAs, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are informed and how management, because of this, is practiced, building thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both.

Administration, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a degree of art (insight) plus some technology (evaluation). Because standard MBA programs are designed almost specifically for young people with little managerial experience, and about Managers Not really MBAs: A Hard Go through the Smooth Practice of Managing and Management Development hence little artwork and no art to attract upon, the applications overemphasize technology, by means of analysis and technique. Graduates leave having a distorted impression that administration consists entirely of applying formulas to circumstances, which has had a corrupting, dehumanizing effect not just within the practice of management but also on our institutions and our public institutions.

Embracing how managers ought to be developed, Mintzberg describes a couple of innovative applications made to address these shortcomings: the International Masters in Exercising Management (IMPM). Finally, he outlines how business academic institutions can transform themselves to become true colleges of management.

Managers, Not MBAs presents the type of daring, iconoclastic thinking readers have come to expect from the man Fast Company journal called “one of the most initial minds in general management.”