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Can I offer a different point of view? I think that the situation you were in would have benefitted from any effort to learn the other aspects of the business.

Can I offer a different point of view? I think that the situation you were in would have benefitted from any effort to learn the other aspects of the business. Going to b-school to do so was just one path. Alternatively you could have sought out someone in the business and asked them for help on learning the other part of the business. Its not universal but I've never met someone who wouldn't help me learn the business better if it helped me to provide a better product. I think the point that Sandberg might have been making was there are some good fundamentals learned in going to business school, however, in tech we move so fast that the education is diluted. I'd also say that in tech we are pre-disposed to attract a lot of self-educated/self-starter types, those folks seem to take a modular approach where if they are deficient in some piece of information they go out and learn it.

zappo2938 11y ago
There are different types of learning. It can be easily said everything a person learns in school can just be learned by reading a book outside of school. However, some people learn better by lecture and other people by simply reading on their own. There was also a movement in the 90s with secondary education where teachers tried multidisciplinary education -- I don't follow these things so it might still be a thing now. The idea is students are more engaged and retain information when instead of being taught math and history separately, they are taught the history of Fibonacci as the same time they are taught about Western Civ and the dark ages of math in science in Europe. Another example is integrating metal shop with physics no becoming energy shop. What OP has discovered is that what might have been boring and inconsequential to his life now has become important to the task at hand.

zappo2938 11y ago

There are different types of learning. It can be easily said everything a person learns in school can just be learned by reading a book outside of school. However, some people learn better by lecture and other people by simply reading on their own. There was also a movement in the 90s with secondary education where teachers tried multidisciplinary education -- I don't follow these things so it might still be a thing now. The idea is students are more engaged and retain information when instead of being taught math and history separately, they are taught the history of Fibonacci as the same time they are taught about Western Civ and the dark ages of math in science in Europe. Another example is integrating metal shop with physics no becoming energy shop. What OP has discovered is that what might have been boring and inconsequential to his life now has become important to the task at hand.