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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  2094 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Middle-aged Certification in ... ?

I've just worked with MBAs for most of my career in the tech industry, and always the most clueless person in the room, with no idea how tech works, is the one with the fresh MBA.

The people who actually know what they are doing don't mention their MBAs, or - if they do - it's as a joking aside. "Oh yeah... I got one of those somewhere. I think it's over in that cabinet."

The general gist of an MBA is that you have a broad range of business process knowledge that isn't very deep. So it looks good, and you have all the right buzzwords, but any plan you put in place will be destroyed almost immediately upon contact with reality. Because things are hard. And there are a LOT of actual experts out there, who can show you the flaws in any MBA's plan, about 2 levels below the surface.





Dala  ·  2093 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...everything makes so much sense now. Thank you! (No this is not sarcasm, your comment just helped me understand something with my own work situation.)