My Innerpreneur

Business Growth from the Inside Out

On the Benefits of a Business Education

by Tara Joyce | Cultural Creativity, Innerpreneurship, Self/Business Growth

photo credit: jacky_oh_yeah

In 1986, when Russell Ackoff, a pioneer of management education, retired as Professor at the Wharton Business School, he was asked what were the benefits of a business education. With savage irony he replied that there were three.

  1. To equip students with a vocabulary that enabled them to talk with authority about subjects they did not understand.
  2. To give students principles that would demonstrate their ability to withstand any amount of dis-confirming evidence.
  3. To give students a ticket of admission to a job where they could learn something about management.
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Tara Joyce

Written by Tara Joyce

This is space to share my musings—unformed ideas, collections of words that catch my fancy, that sort of thing. I'm the author of Pay What It's Worth and the Cross My Heart series.

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