1. How do you feel about your decision to pursue an online part time MBA vs a 2 year full time MBA?
2. After completing the degree do you feel like "Business" (Marketing, Accounting, Finance, etc.) are worth serious study and if so do you think they are under studied or trivialized?
I would not have taken the time to do a 2-year MBA—or for that matter, an accelerated 1-year MBA. Additionally, I got a lot out of doing my MBA _while_ working in an actively-burning industry. I got to apply my notes directly to my work and vice versa.
As for business broadly, it’s absolutely worth studying. I suspect that the grade inflation and slop-seeking features of my degree program are common to all education programs right now.
The challenge with strategy is that assessing whether a strategy is GOOD requires broad-based knowledge about 1) the company, 2) the industry, and 3) the environment around that industry...and actually *creating* good strategy requires you to have the balls to articulate an opinion about all this information.
There's not really an easy way to BECOME good at business strategy beyond getting In The Arena. And the a straightforward path to the broad-based knowledge is first to know what you don't know...and a good starting point to THAT is to ask a bunch of dumb questions
Two Questions, one specific, one abstract:
1. How do you feel about your decision to pursue an online part time MBA vs a 2 year full time MBA?
2. After completing the degree do you feel like "Business" (Marketing, Accounting, Finance, etc.) are worth serious study and if so do you think they are under studied or trivialized?
I would not have taken the time to do a 2-year MBA—or for that matter, an accelerated 1-year MBA. Additionally, I got a lot out of doing my MBA _while_ working in an actively-burning industry. I got to apply my notes directly to my work and vice versa.
As for business broadly, it’s absolutely worth studying. I suspect that the grade inflation and slop-seeking features of my degree program are common to all education programs right now.
> If you want to learn strategy, start by peppering notionally smart people with “why do you believe that” questions until they start stammering
I'm actually not sure how to match this onto your definition of strategy - what's the starting point for the "why do you believe that" chain here?
The challenge with strategy is that assessing whether a strategy is GOOD requires broad-based knowledge about 1) the company, 2) the industry, and 3) the environment around that industry...and actually *creating* good strategy requires you to have the balls to articulate an opinion about all this information.
There's not really an easy way to BECOME good at business strategy beyond getting In The Arena. And the a straightforward path to the broad-based knowledge is first to know what you don't know...and a good starting point to THAT is to ask a bunch of dumb questions