{"id":1629,"date":"2009-04-21T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:44","slug":"on-the-benefits-of-a-business-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/04\/21\/on-the-benefits-of-a-business-education\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Benefits of a Business Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jacky_oh_yeah\/3444820184\/\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: jacky_oh_yeah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1986, when <a title=\"Russell Ackoff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_L._Ackoff\">Russell Ackoff<\/a>, a pioneer of management education, retired as Professor at the Wharton Business School, he was asked <strong>what were the benefits of a business education<\/strong>. With savage irony he replied that <strong>there were three<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> To equip students with a vocabulary that enabled them to talk with authority about subjects they did not understand.<\/li>\n<li>To give students principles that would demonstrate their ability to withstand any amount of dis-confirming evidence.<\/li>\n<li>To give students a ticket of admission to a job where they could learn something about management.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jacky_oh_yeah\/3444820184\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"scotty\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/business.jpg\" alt=\"photo credit: jacky_oh_yeah\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: jacky_oh_yeah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1986, when <a title=\"Russell Ackoff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_L._Ackoff\">Russell Ackoff<\/a>, a pioneer of management education, retired as Professor at the Wharton Business School, he was asked <strong>what were the benefits of a business education<\/strong>. With savage irony he replied that <strong>there were three<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> To equip students with a vocabulary that enabled them to talk with authority about subjects they did not understand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","category-being-an-innerpreneur","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}