If you build it, they will come: Personal MBA edition
If you're unfamiliar with Seth Godin, here's a great speech he made at Google a few months ago. He recently pointed to an interesting meme called the Personal MBA which was fleshed out in detail by an adroit polymath interested in bettering his management acumen without having to pay the bling bling to attend A-list business schools.
BusinessWeek has written a detailed overview of the movement including comments from the Ivory Tower. This is in addition to their piece posing the question in the first place, Is The MBA Overrated?
So will the University survive? Kathy Sierra wonders the same thing.
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The big thing will be networking opportunities with key people, which is the true key advantage of business schools. The one I'm in right now (Simon) has excellent faculty, and a quality program; however, what is relevant for me could just as well be learned from a series of textbooks, including the CFA textbooks.
For most people, I'd venture to say, the real reason they're paying whatever it is they're paying isn't for the benefit of the knowledge -- which they can, after all, just as well get from books -- but for the motivation to actually see it through.
Published: April 8, 2006 1:28 AM
Great links, thanks very much!
Published: April 10, 2006 7:48 AM