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 courses 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 ...

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