{"id":7339,"date":"2017-11-27T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arliemediadesign.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T11:23:43","slug":"business-schools-time-to-get-your-act-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/business-schools-time-to-get-your-act-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Schools: Time to Get Your Act Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The response from one of the Deans was short and telling: \u201cWe do the easy stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It suddenly became clear to me why so many businesses don\u2019t get it. People come out of business schools with MBAs in their thousands. They become the senior leadership of our major corporates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are well schooled in finance and in strategy but not in people. It should be no surprise then that there is still so much command and control and so little focus on creating happy, productive workplaces and truly empowering your people. Yet the evidence is strong that companies that focus on creating great workplace culture are more productive, more profitable and have greater share growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tom Peters: \u201cDisgusted\u201d by the focus on finance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out I am not alone in this view. At last week\u2019s Thinkers50 gathering of the world\u2019s top management gurus, Tom Peters said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion business schools are good at everything except what\u2019s most important: People.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is time at MBAs to start talking about people on day one. I am disgusted by how business schools focus on financials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roger Martin: Business schools need a wakeup call<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Roger Martin, former Dean of University of Toronto\u2019s Rotman School of Management, agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be devastation in business schools, to create a wake up call. They are way too self-satisfied. 95% of what we teach 155,000 people in MBAs in the US has nothing to do with people or ethics. Why are we surprised by the results?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Thinkers50, Tom Peters was given the lifetime achievement award for his services to business. Roger Martin was rated the top management guru in the world. These are not fringe characters but two leading global management thinkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business schools, there are lots of us who get the people bit and would love to contribute. 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