Both the practice of management and the development of managers are in dire straits these days. In Managers Not MBAs, Henry Mintzberg asserts that conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences. They encourage calculating and heroic styles of management that are damaging our organizations and undermining our democratic institutions. Mintzberg takes a hard look at the soft practice of managing and suggests that we do things differently-encourage a more engaging style that brings out the energy that exists naturally within people.
