Venture Mode: Escape the Administration Trap by Finding and Unleashing Entrepreneurial Leaders

By Mark Packard and Hunter Hastings

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GFY58YHP
• ISBN13: 9798891386518
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Amplify Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.