Sachin's conflating the teaching of techniques he finds distateful with the general notion of teaching management skills in general.
Trying to teach the mechanics of running a business without going into psychology is like trying to teach the piano with only a book and a metronome. I cannot tell you how many times an MBA2 student (I'm currently an MBA1 at Michigan, which is awesome and amazing) has made a comment like "I was in [x] situation that was eerily just like a roleplay situation in my MO class."
The mechanics of running a business are exactly the sort of thing you can learn in a book (or a blog); dealing with people to get optimal outcomes takes a classroom environment with an excellent teacher and groups of other students. You have to bang the keys to really learn how to be an effective manager of - and hopefully, leader of - people.
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Sachin's conflating the teaching of techniques he finds distateful with the general notion of teaching management skills in general.
Trying to teach the mechanics of running a business without going into psychology is like trying to teach the piano with only a book and a metronome. I cannot tell you how many times an MBA2 student (I'm currently an MBA1 at Michigan, which is awesome and amazing) has made a comment like "I was in [x] situation that was eerily just like a roleplay situation in my MO class."
The mechanics of running a business are exactly the sort of thing you can learn in a book (or a blog); dealing with people to get optimal outcomes takes a classroom environment with an excellent teacher and groups of other students. You have to bang the keys to really learn how to be an effective manager of - and hopefully, leader of - people.
Weird, I always thought you were OP. Guess I should click those usernames more often.
That pisses off the other Sachin a lot more than it bothers me. :)