They ignore the extent to which management is a craft, requiring zest and intuition rather than merely an ability to analyse data and invent strategies.Maybe that is why, as Mr Mintzberg gleefully points out, a list of America's most-admired business leaders (Warren Buffett, Herb Kelleher, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Jack Welch and Oprah Winfrey) contains not a single MBA.
While it can be tempting to point out a laundry list of the other person's flaws or call each other names, this doesn't do anything except foster feelings of hurt and frustration in the other person.
And, as Ms. Trotochaud pointed out, a $50 airline fee listed on a business traveler's corporate credit card report could be for two checked bags or a one-day pass to an airline lounge.
Kingsley Amis has pointed out that a list compiled in 1940 would have included Graham Greene, Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh and Elizabeth Bowen.
After pointing out a few more names on the list, DeGeneres explains that she has "no political ambition," but there are a few things she'd do "to make like better for people". .
Mark Griffiths, a psychologist at Nottingham Trent University who specialises in behavioural addictions points out that gamblers list a wide range of motivations for their habit.
On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee pointed out a second O'Donnell Internet profile also lists the candidate as having studied at the University of Oxford (O'Donnell took a course with the Phoenix Institute on Oxford's campus).
As the Independent points out, the list is often controversial: "The magazine used to pick baddies (Stalin and Hitler among them) but after a US backlash in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini was named, it has been accused of bottling tricky choices".
But, as Boiten points out, this list is by no means complete.
But as the article points out, the list has ballooned to 245.
As literary agent Andrew Kidd points out, the Granta list has a different function to an annual literary award, such as his newly-founded Folio Prize or the long-established Man Booker.
