Monday, December 8, 2008

Management vs. Business Skills

I entered the working world with a degree and skills but no experience managing a business. I now talk to people who look for uber-skills but it seems the art of management is still left, many times, unevaluated except for brief behavioral interview questions such as "Tell me the last time you faced a problem and how did you handle it?" For which the only real wrong answer is a stutter or an overwhelming cynical look of stupidity, of which I have done both at different times. I think this video of a conversation between Henry Mintzberg and Ricardo Semler states the problem better than I could:
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Posted by Franz Reuchlein at 3:58 PM

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