From: Robert Gately [mailto:
gately@compuserve.com]
I enjoyed the Mintzberg interview but I'm not surprised. Those of us who
help employers use the job fit method for employee selection have known
for a long time that having an MBA just means you have passed a serious
of tests. I suggest business school professors should stop telling their
students and the business community that "our graduates make good
employees." The best a school can say is "our graduates are
well-educated."
Have you read the book "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's
Greatest Managers Do Differently" [by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman,
1999]? Job success is about talent and talent cannot be acquired in
business school. This is why managers are so successful using the job
fit method, they hire the qualified job applicants who also have a
talent for the job. Of course, I realize that this may not sit well with
educators, but it does explain why so many executives complain about
MBAs not becoming successful employees. It isn't a secret. When business
schools realize that only the employer can know if a job applicant will
be successful they will feel much better about themselves. Employers are
responsible for their own bad hires not the bad hires' Alma Mater.
Bob
Robert F. Gately, PE, MBA
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