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Are you saying that to cut the bloat you actually need to know the business and how the parts fit together ? Heresy ! If that is true then the whole idea behi
by candiodari 9y ago
Are you saying that to cut the bloat you actually need to know the business and how the parts fit together ?
Heresy !
If that is true then the whole idea behind management is flawed. (management, MBA, business administration and the like depend on the idea that managing one company is pretty much the same activity as managing another. If what you say is true, that you cannot just generically cut then such people should never be put in charge of companies or even departments, yet that is exactly what is happening in every large company).
(Just a frustrated ex-cisco employee whose manager had an MBA)
- phlakaton 9y agoI don't have an MBA, but I recognize that there are many aspects to running a good business, common to many businesses, that an MBA can probably help teach. But just like any other college degree, an MBA is a start or a rounding out, not the complete package in and of itself. I know of nobody sane who thinks that you don't need to know your business's specific needs backwards and forwards to run it well.
- candiodari 9y agoWell, I work at a big company and 1) I know many people who think like that (in some cases because they have such a position. Manager without knowing what their reports actually do) 2) The hiring decisions made -regularly- prove that this is in fact the overriding opinion in our management.
- phlakaton 9y agoI refer you back to my qualifying adjective "sane." ;-) Sorry you have to deal with that.