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To help your digestion, I supply this link to a Mintzbergian take on management education.

http://news.moneycontrol.com/india/newsarticle/stocksnews.php?autono=225925

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Cybercollegially,

Charles Wankel

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Project-based Mgt Ed: http://management-education.net/rmed4.html

People learn management by focusing on their own experience and learning from their own experience.

The view of management education developed in the 1950s is business education -- that's not management education at all.

For innovation, look at the programme on critical management at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename></st1:place>. Or the one on purchasing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bath</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Very innovative teaching.

you have to diffuse the power and the authority to people who have knowledge on the ground

But lots of B- schools do make a big deal about diversity...
Yeah right. They are teaching American management style, and calling it global. An American school that boasts about diversity boasts that 20-30 per cent of its students come from abroad -- maybe 30-35 percent at the most. Any class that has 60-70 per cent Americans, who don't tend to be shy in a classroom, is hardly diverse. If you go to INSEAD (in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>), you see real diversity because probably no more than 20 per cent are from any one country. You get international experience there.

My memory is not what it used to be but I can recall no "popular notion" that Dr. Mintzberg has demolished except, perhaps, to his own satisfaction. 

To help your digestion, I supply this link to a Mintzbergian take on management education.

http://news.moneycontrol.com/india/newsarticle/stocksnews.php?autono=225925

Post your reactions to Mg-Ed-Dv.

Cybercollegially,

Charles Wankel

Mg-Ed-Dv List Director

Project-based Mgt Ed: http://management-education.net/rmed4.html

People learn management by focusing on their own experience and learning from their own experience.

The view of management education developed in the 1950s is business education -- that's not management education at all.

For innovation, look at the programme on critical management at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename></st1:place>. Or the one on purchasing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bath</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Very innovative teaching.

you have to diffuse the power and the authority to people who have knowledge on the ground

But lots of B- schools do make a big deal about diversity...
Yeah right. They are teaching American management style, and calling it global. An American school that boasts about diversity boasts that 20-30 per cent of its students come from abroad -- maybe 30-35 percent at the most. Any class that has 60-70 per cent Americans, who don't tend to be shy in a classroom, is hardly diverse. If you go to INSEAD (in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>), you see real diversity because probably no more than 20 per cent are from any one country. You get international experience there.