100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
Author: Steve Chandler
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008
Genre: Large type books
ISBN: 1427094012

Motivational speaker Chandler highlights 100 proven methods to positively change the way people think and act, methods based on feedback from the corporate and public seminar attendees he speaks to each year.

Managers Not MBAs

Managers Not MBAs
Author: Henry Mintzberg
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2005-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 160994044X

In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both. “The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences,” Mintzberg writes. “Using the classroom to help develop people already practicing management is a fine idea, but pretending to create managers out of people who have never managed is a sham.” Leaders cannot be created in a classroom. They arise in context. But people who already practice management can significantly improve their effectiveness given the opportunity to learn thoughtfully from their own experience. Mintzberg calls for a more engaging approach to managing and a more reflective approach to management education. He also outlines how business schools can become true schools of management.