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Many of the graduates of today’s business schools are well prepared to excel in applying the functional knowledge and skill they have acquired. The world needs people who can do this. Yet the business profession expresses a growing need for general managers and leaders, people who can knit together the work of many technicians, who take an enterprise point of view, and who create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. As business grows more global in form and content, the need for leaders who can synthesize activities across borders grows more urgent. The gap between what schools produce and what business needs is at the heart of a chorus of criticism of business education.
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Bruner, R.F., Conroy, R.M., Snell, S.A. (2012). The Development of General Management Capabilities in a Global World. In: Canals, J. (eds) Leadership Development in a Global World. The Palgrave Macmillan IESE Business Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283320_1
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