From Hugh McLeod’s blog gapingvoid.com I discovered McGill Management prof, Henry Mintzberg. Anyone who has a page dedicated to beaver sculptures deserves to be praised, but Mintzberg writes clear, wise, and critical essays like Beyond Selfishness (with Robert Simons and Kunal Basu for the Sloan Management Review, Fall, 2002). Beyond selfishness takes aim at the “greed is good”, heroic leadership, shareholders’ value ideology that seems to keep on surviving evidence that none of this is good for society. Mintzberg makes obvious that we want robust and friendly not lean (skinny) and mean companies, schools and governments. His Leadership Beyond the Bush MBA asks an interesting question, “Has there been much public discussion at the Harvard Business School about the possible effect of its education on the conduct of his presidency?” (Bush is the first president with an MBA.) The issue isn’t really Harvard so much as management education, and in Mintzberg’s view, the way management students are taught decisiveness over experience of the situation.