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Just as a layperson often underestimates the true depth of a PhD's expertise in their field of study, many people often underestimate the skill of someone who h
by mbot5324 5y ago
Just as a layperson often underestimates the true depth of a PhD's expertise in their field of study, many people often underestimate the skill of someone who has spent a similarly long time meditating on the "soft skills" that actually glue a good idea into a successful business.
- Moodles 5y agoI'm not arguing for hard skills over soft skills. I'm asking if MBAs actually provide transferrable hard skills.
- bmeski 5y agoThey don’t. All MBAs I’ve met in my career have been replaced easily.
- mlac 5y agoYou haven’t met good ones, and that’s likely why they were replaced.
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- pasiaj 5y agoThat's not an argument against MBA's having hard skills. It's an argument for a finely standardized product. MBAs are a commodity, but they do or at least can have hard skills. I've wasted plenty of time and money on subpar market entry and expansion that could have been saved had I worked with people with some theoretical background on those.
- mbot5324 5y agoYou could write an encyclopedic book of counter intuitive organizational dynamics. While I don't know that this is the case with all of them, perhaps MBAs could be understood as internalizing the combination of such an encyclopedia with a few others besides and gaining insight into how they interplay with supply line logistics. The insight mostly comes from experiences; the knowledge of what to reference to find where to find where to find what to find could be (boringly) boiled down to rote memorization and distributed through your standard classroom practices.
- wittycardio 5y agoSoft skills are very valuable but you tend to learn those with experience not classes, MBAs are just as unlikely as PhDs to have them