It's time to take the "A" out of MBA

Venture Mode is a bold call for an overhaul of modern business leadership and the higher education system that staffs it.

It exposes the bureaucratic mindset that dominates modern organizations—especially universities—and explains the true cost of our obsession with administration in the form of suppressed economic potential. In its place, Hunter Hastings and Mark Packard champion venture mode: a radical, entrepreneurial approach that prioritizes value creation, consumer sovereignty, and agile execution.

Venture Mode takes aim at traditional bureaucratic management and makes the case for a new kind of leadership—entrepreneurial leadership—that’s built to drive growth, unleash creativity, and outpace competitors. Drawing from both entrepreneurial (Austrian) economics and the experiences of inspiring modern business leaders, the authors lay out a provocative road map to escape the administration trap and rebuild organizations around the principles of value creation. They also outline a vision for business education that replaces the ubiquitous MBA with the MBE—master of business enterprise—to ensure that the next generation is trained in entrepreneurial leadership instead of administration.

Whether you’re a founder, an executive, or a rebel within a legacy system, this book is a call to arms. If you’re tired of the inertia of traditional business thinking and its MBA-fueled administrative mindset, then Venture Mode is your new manual—showing you how to train, nurture, and unleash entrepreneurial leaders to fuel a thriving business. The world doesn’t need more administrators. It needs entrepreneurs.