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I wish that people who rail against MBAs, as if they're a cult that should be demonised, would take 3 minutes to look at the classes and topics that you cover i
by anjc 10y ago
I wish that people who rail against MBAs, as if they're a cult that should be demonised, would take 3 minutes to look at the classes and topics that you cover in a typical programme.
You'll quickly see that they aren't programmes that you go into to exchange business cards and smoke cigars, and go off to do a few fun team building exercises and projects while casually reading Ries and Thiel and other pop-business bullshit...they're generally highly academic and very difficult to do well in.
An MBA is to business what Computer Science is to coding as a junior web dev. You'll probably never use 90% of what you learn, but you'll get a high level overview of several important fields which lots of important academics (e.g. Mintzberg) have explored over the last century, and you'll be a better worker for it.
- tingbadimalo 10y ago"An MBA is to business what Computer Science is to coding as a junior web dev" great analogy. I think the additional challenge is that coding has a clear feedback loop. Management and business does not and therefore most people remain 'junior web devs' and make mistakes throughout their careers.