Venture Mode

Escape the Administration Trap by Finding and Unleashing Entrepreneurial Leaders

Are you ready to take the “A” out of MBA?

Venture Mode demands an overhaul of modern business leadership and the higher education system that caters to it.

It calls out the bureaucratic mindset that permeates modern organizations—especially universities—and shows the unfortunate cost of our obsession with administration through lost economic potential. Instead, Hunter Hastings and Mark Packard present venture mode: a radical, entrepreneurial approach that emphasizes value creation, consumer sovereignty, and agile execution.

Venture Mode takes on traditional bureaucratic management and makes the case for a new kind of entrepreneurialleadership that’s meant to push growth, unleash creativity, and outperform the competition. Drawing from both entrepreneurial (Austrian) economics and examples of successful modern business leaders, the authors offer an enticing road map to liberate organizations from the administration trap and rebuild around the principles of value creation. They also provide a vision for business education that replaces the worn-out MBA with the MBE—master of business enterprise—so the next generation is focused on entrepreneurial leadership, and the emphasis on administration subsides.

Whether you’re a founder, an executive, or a rebel within a legacy system, this book is a fresh perspective and an opportunity to rejuvenate yourself and your team. If you’re exhausted from the slog of traditional business thinking and its MBA-fueled administrative perspective, then Venture Mode is your new manual—showing you how to train, nurture, and unleash entrepreneurial leaders toward a thriving business. The world doesn’t need more administrators. It needs entrepreneurs.