Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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San Francisco CA 94104-2916

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Henry Mintzberg's Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look At The Soft Practice Of Managing And Management Development (1576752755, $27.95) is no light reading: it takes a hard and critical look at the practices of managing and management development, providing a critique of how managers are mis-educated and how their policies don't translate to the average workplace reality. Chapters pinpoint the problems inherent in conventional MBA programs and concepts, from an overemphasis on analysis to a distorted idea of how management may be practiced. Henry Mitzberg is a professor who has been name a Distinguished Scholar, among other awards: Managers Not MBAs attacks the fallacies inherent in MBA programs--and offers solutions. Maggie Mahar's Bull!: A History Of The Boom, 1982-1999: What Drove The Breakneck Market--and What Every Investor Needs To Know About Financial Cycles (0060564-13X, $27.95) investigates the driving force behind the stock market from 1982-99--and uses it to illustrate basic concepts of financial cycles and forces underlying the market. From the origins and first years of the boom to behind-the-scenes Wall Street politics and economics, Bull! portrays not just politics and economics, but many of the moving figures of the times, from Alan Greenspan's wizardry to James Cramer. Maggie Mahar is in the perfect position to provide this lively report: she was a financial journalist and an English professor at Yale, and provides a fine coverage of the financial market accessible to lay readers. Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder's Ideas Are Free: How The Idea Revolution Is Liberating People And Transforming Organizations (1576752828, $24.95) advises managers on how to tap into the 'idea revolution' often fostered or instigated by their own employees. From simple ideas for saving time and money to new ways of doing or seeking business opportunities, Robinson and Schoreder's Ideas Are Free advocates recognizing employee ideas--and promoting them.