Henry Minztberg, the author of the famous book "Managers, not MBA's" wrote in 2007 a prescient short article on the danger of the managing culture of contemporary America and of the Bush presidency in particular. It is instructive to know that President Bush has received an MBA in 1975 from Harvard University.
In short and crisp term, Mintzberg comments on the pitfalls of an MBA approach where confidence boosting is put forward without a real focus on competence and how it results, when managing (whether in strategy setting or in execution) in arrogance as oppose to humility in our leadership. This article is a short manifesto that puts managing, not as a profession or a science, but as a practice. I hope you enjoy the article that I find relevant for many of or leaders around the world.
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Welby, it is so nice to spend time thinking about management. perhaps you would find this article on wiki-pedia of some interest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_worker i got to it after reading your blog researching Peter Drucker and then thinking about knowledge worker management -which in its way brought me full circle back to your blog. I am also a big fan of Senge's work "The Fifth Discipline".
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