Managers Not MBAs

This book is dedicated to the “Why not?” people who brought the

International Masters Program in Practicing Management to life:

• The thirty-two managers of the first class who came into this unknown with energy and enthusiasm: Pierre Arsenault, Gerhard Böhm, Marc Boillot, Jane Davis, Luc DeWever, Massar Fujita, Jacques Gautier, John Geoghegan, Kevin Greenawalt, Abbas Gullet, Kentaro Iijima, Vince Isber, “Rocky” Iwaoka, Terry Jenkins, Thierry Knockaert, Gabriela Kroll, Narendra Kudva, Silke Lehnhardt, Y. B. Lim, Steve Martineau, Jane McCroary, Brian Megraw, Edmée Métivier, Kazu Mutoh, Hiro Nishikawa, David Noble, Harald Plöckinger, Morten Ramberg, Nagu Rao, Roy Sugimura, Alan Whelan, and Torstein Wold
• The companies that took a chance when ...