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Being an MBA and having spent a lot of time with a large cohort of the same, the "Entitlement," "Misguided Thinking,"and "Selection Bias" critiques sound a lot
by devinmontgomery 14y ago
Being an MBA and having spent a lot of time with a large cohort of the same, the "Entitlement," "Misguided Thinking,"and "Selection Bias" critiques sound a lot more like the caricature that's made of MBAs by non-MBAs (or self-loathing MBAs trying to impress non-MBAs) than the vast majority of real people who have the degree. If this represents the majority of the MBAs you've met, then I fear you have an unrepresentative sample. We had those folks, for sure. But they were the dorks and the minority.
- pasbesoin 14y agoIn my anecdotal experience (albeit typically in larger corporate environments), many of those possessing or actively pursuing MBA's are or present themselves as fairly sincere. Nonetheless, they often simply have a perspective and approach that is not very useful for the problems at hand. Or they go about solving the wrong problems. Things get all (re)organized for a year or two, and perhaps the activity looks progressive. Perhaps it somewhat masks underlying circumstances. But... moving dollars and org around does not, of itself, motivate nor solve production problems. And a lot of those same people seem to embrace typical "HR best practices" in a rather claustrophobia-inducing fashion. Mine is just a rather narrowly informed anecdotal experience. But many of the MBA types around me have not/hardly inspired me.