[Gondring]

"CHARLES R. KESLER is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and editor of the Claremont Review of Books. A version of this article will appear in the summer 2006 issue."

The commentary against modern management style is worth reading in full, though the LA Times allows only excerpting here. I'm interested in hearing opinions from MBA/non-MBA folks.

[Judith Anne]

All I have to offer is this:

It's better to have an MBA from Harvard, than to be a divinity school dropout. Or another freaking lawyer.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Actually, Pres. Bush's MBA training has been very helpful, in that he has had to manage many difficult situations.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Having both a brother and a niece with an MBA I would trust them to run things much better than some east coast liberal elitist or some idiot lawyer who couldn't even carrying his own state in an election.

[HawaiianGecko]

The author of this article has misapplied analogies and demonstrated the worst logic I have seen in years.  There isn't a single sentence or topic that is actually proven to be true. McNamara's Ford upbringing didn't lose Vietnam, politicians lost Vietnam, yet he is trying to say that politicians are the people we should elect rather than common sense businessmen.

 

 

[Non-Sequitur]

George W. Bush is the first president with an MBA (from Harvard Business School, no less),

Ah yes. There's no BS like HBS.

[spanalot]

"Over decades, the pursuit of ethical uplift waned, and the pursuit of efficiency and new methods of reading a balance sheet waxed, paving the way for the increasingly empty trendiness of modern management books. "

Huh?!??! That quite a broadbrush swipe.

This is a reach and ridiculously precarious Bush Bash argument. But I guess this is all that the LA Times can muster

[VOA]

I appreciate Dubya and his MBA (and not being a weasel lawyer) on most issues.
But, in honesty, I think his bottom-line business sense has led him
to believe the economics of nearly-unfettered illegal immigration is a
good thing and maintaining our borders is not such a big deal.

Having Rove in attendence at the next La Raza national meeting is
a sign that he's sincere in his views about sovereignity.
And willing to make nice with a racial-politics organization.
http://www.nclr.org/section/events/conference/event_information/speakertalent/
(See Rove on July 11; also note that Sen. Brownback will be in attendance on July 10)

[mewzilla]

I'll take someone with a functioning moral compass and some common sense. The sheepskin, any sheepskin, is optional.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Translation: "MBAs are less likely to let journalists tell them how to run the country, so no more of them, please."

[stainlessbanner]

Just noticed this was from the Claremonsters

[philetus]

If government was Toyoya,one of every two vehicles would be non-operable and the other would be missing.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] "Government thus involves issues of national defense, criminal justice and other 'involuntary transactions' backed by a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. [Emphasis supplied]

I have a problem with this statement. If this writer is a Republican, he's been hanging around old Rockefeller Republican "me-too'ers" too long. That idea of a "monopoly of force" is bedrock socialist dogma, and absolutely is not bedrock American federalism.

American law has always allowed for the private use of force, whether by homeowners, paymasters waylaid by robbers, bank guards, or just citizens responding to the ancient Saxon "hue and cry" against a thief, robber, arsonist, or sexual predator. The Second and Fourteenth Amendments underscore the importance the Framers and their successors accorded the citizen's right to use force.