Reading some of today's posts makes me wonder what is the nature of the MBA
programs, an experience to acquire some tools appropriate to the times, an
adventure to develop enduring principles, something else.
As Debra Black (
Debra.Black@apollogrp.edu) comments on Tony Nolan (
t.nolan@uts.edu.au) post, maybe the MBA experience requires a blend of
enduring principles that do stay constant over time. What most concerned me
is this tendency towards focusing on having the new "silver-bullet " and in
a way discarding everything else. Jim Underwood (
docj@airmail.net)
provides a road to travel --- Challenge to understand and integrate more,
centered on performing better, which incidentally includes every
stakeholder (faculty, students and others). The general domains I see
include the physical, emotional, mental and even the spiritual. Then there
exist many emerging phenomena that need be observed, especially issues that
depend on underlying and historical factors all within the model.
Is this achievable? YES. Is this desired? Questionable, each stakeholder
wants / poses particular challenges that lead into many unresolved
paradoxes, the underlying issue being how to establish a sustainable
ecology that resolves and sustains everyone stakeholders concerns shifting
from exploitation into collaboration.
Cordially,
Esteban Trevino
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