在政界崛起的MBA

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“Voters like to think that business people are efficient and that they can bring good practices to government. But they only think about the best run companies and the worst run agencies. They forget about the thousands of start-ups that go broke every year.”
“选民们往往认为，商人效率高，可以为政府带来好的做法。但他们只考虑到了经营最好的企业和表现最糟的政府机构。他们忘记了每年有数以千计的初创企业破产。”

And, there is no guarantee that management graduates will govern as their training might suggest. Prof Pfiffner argues that an MBA has limited usefulness for aspiring politicians.
此外，并不能保证管理专业毕业生会学以致用。菲夫纳认为，对有抱负的政治家而言，MBA用处有限。

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“Analytical skills and being able to think clearly are important for politics. But things like accounting, marketing or finance are not going to be directly relevant. The types of things that politicians do need might be better gotten with things like history or even philosophy.”
“分析技巧和清晰的思路对政治很重要。但会计、营销或金融等知识则没有直接关系。政治家真正需要的可能是更好地掌握历史乃至哲学等知识。”

But Maurits van Rooijen, rector at Nyenrode, says this misses the point about business school. An MBA is not simply standardised knowledge about various corporate functions he says, but – at its best – is a programme that encourages self-development and fosters leadership skills. It is therefore potentially useful for lots of occupations.
但是奈耶诺德大学校长毛里茨•万罗金(Maurits van Rooijen)表示，这是对商学院不了解。他称，MBA不仅仅是关于各种企业职能的标准化知识，往好里说，它还是一个鼓励个人发展和培养领导技能的项目。因此它可能对许多职业都有用。

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“What we don’t want is the classic MBA who is just capable at analysing data, and making decisions. We are trying to teach contextual intelligence. It’s not always precise data and facts that lead you to a certain solution. You have to develop a sensitivity which goes beyond facts and figures. That’s what you need in business as well as in politics,” he says.
他表示：“我们不想要只会分析数据和做决策的传统MBA。我们试图教授给学员举一反三的能力。引导你得出某个解决方案的并不总是精确的数据和事实。你必须形成一种超出于事实与数据之外的敏感性。这是你在商界和政界都需要的东西。”

Assessing politicians is subjective. But Prof van Rooijen says whether a politician is effective ultimately depends on the individual, rather than his or her training. “You can do an MBA by sitting behind a computer, acquiring knowledge. Or you can have an MBA that’s beyond the knowledge, where it’s about leadership. That’s what we try to be about.”
评估政治家带有主观性。但是万罗金表示，一名政治家是否能发挥作用最终取决于个人，而不是他/她接受的培训。“你可以坐在电脑后面，获取知识，由此得到MBA学位；你也可以拥有一个超越知识范畴的MBA，即领导力。这就是我们努力的方向。”