DESAUTELS PROF. HENRY MINTZBERG FEATURED IN THE ECONOMIST’S MANAGEMENT GURU SERIES

In “Managers not MBAs”, Mintzberg moved on to another recurring theme of his — that the MBA, the bread-and-butter course of many business schools and the sine qua non of fast-track management careers, “prepares people to manage nothing”. Synthesis, not analysis, he said, “is the very essence of management”, and the MBA course teaches only analysis.

Economist.com, January 16, 2009