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I believe Sandberg was referring to positions where someone might think an MBA is required, like product management. No one is asking whether an MBA might be us
by eastbayjake 11y ago
I believe Sandberg was referring to positions where someone might think an MBA is required, like product management. No one is asking whether an MBA might be useful for highly technical roles, like the above posting for someone doing the technical implementation of an online ad engine.
- niels_olson 11y agoFrom what I've read of Sandberg, she is an executive looking at grooming executives. In her mind, "professional" is equivalent to a plumber: not her children. Her athlete analogy makes a special sort of sense in that context. I have seen a strong connection from the athletes and spec-ops people I went to school with now moving into executive positions. I'm not sure what the common denominator is, because I know a lot of athletes who are now in construction too. But if you're an athlete and can hang intellectually, there's a desirable mindset there. And I think that mindset is the striver: they see themselves every day as a little faster or a little slower, never the same. And they always want to be faster. In Plato's Republic, there's a chapter on training the guardians, and I think that reflects her ideas reasonably well, in so far as a lot of Western leadership practices derived from the Greeks and the Republic in particular.