Bandit, Tony B. and I are finally taking stock of all our notes and insights and are making another push with writing the book. We are now calling the book NotanMBA, because we can!
One of those insights is that, unlike the educational and economic environment in which Bandit and I went to college (in the […]
My wiring makes me the absolute worst-case example of getting by by the seat of my extemporaneous pants. If I can walk in and wing it, why prepare? Preparation is dull, boring, tedious. Dull.
For me, this just-in-time approach peaking in college. I walked in to an open-book test on Numerical Methods […]
This phrase, Why Business Schools Suck, is a lead-in to the article, Business Schools Laid Bare, in the April issue of CNBC European Business. The article lays out an argument similar to the one made by James O’Toole and Warren Bennis in their HBR article from a couple of years ago, How Business Schools Lost […]
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- Bandit
Noel Tichy, Professor of Leadership and Management at the University of Michigan, suggests that effective leadership depends on having a teachable point of view. That is, if you don’t possess something (skill, knowledge, perspective, or some combination), then your ability to lead is greatly diminished.
Using this as a litmus test for leadership, I now realize […]
Grades are in and I’d say Not a B-School gets a flag. That’s okay… As Thomas Edison said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” We’ve only used-up two.
The lesson this time around is simple–if you place a link in an obvious place, people will click on it. However, […]
…in which I offer an alternative to throwing away $50K…
Nothing illustrates the fact that the MBA business is big business better than a Google search. 65M search results (on “mba”) and a seemingly unlimited supply of ads for MBA programs. At $2.75 average CPC, we’re not talking about peanuts exchanging hands.
It’s interesting then, […]
