Management Education

Management courses for people without a few years of management experience are a waste of time.

What I would like to see-and what I have practiced now for many years in my own teaching-is:

• Management education only for already successful people.  I believe management course for people without a few years of management experience are a waste of time.
• Management education for people from the private, the public and the not-for-profit sectors together.
• Planned, systematic work by the students while at school in real work assignments in real organizations-the equivalent to the MD residency.
• Far more emphasis on government, society, history and the political process.
• Teachers with real management experience and enough of a consulting practice to know real challenges.
• Major emphasis on the non quantifiable areas that are the challenges-and especially on the non quantifiable areas outside the business-at the same time much greater quantitative skills, that is, in understanding both the limitations of the available numbers and how to use numbers.

ACTION POINT: Take executive development course that pertain to your current position and the position to which you aspire.  Apply the concepts directly to your work assignments.