MBA in 80 mins

[Bunk]

About the Author
Richard Reeves is a writer, commentator and speaker. He is a former columnist and editor-at-large for Management Today, and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer and Prospect magazine. In 2005, he was the presenter of the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy. Richard is the newly appointed director of influential think-tank Demos and was European Business Speaker of the Year 2007.

John Knell is one of the UK's leading thinkers on the changing face of work and organisations, and has consulted to a wide range of corporate and public sector clients. John's recent client work has focused on strategic reviews, thought leadership and high-level public policy work particularly in the cultural sphere. He was previously director of Research and Advocacy at The Work Foundation, where he played a key role in transforming the organisation into an authority on work issues.

That tells you all you need to know. They're thinkers, not do-ers.

[AtW]

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Anyone read this?

Title: "The 80 Minute MBA: Everything You'll Never Learn at Business School (Paperback)"

So, just from this one can draw the following conclusions:

1) It is not MBA since it won't teach you stuff that is taught on MBA business school courses

2) There is not a lot taught at Business Schools - the remaining part is huge and one book will never cover it, hence it is misleading title - if they do it from frontpage, how can one trust unknown contents?

3) "Learning at school" is not the same as "Being taught at school" - one can learn a lot of stuff at school even if has no relationship to the course

So to sum up this 80 second analysis - this book can't be possibly more worth than rather worthless MBAs (speaking here as Harvard/Stanford MBA Reject 1999): running a successful real (not an entity primarily designed to minimise personal tax) business for a fair long period of time teaches far more than any course ever will.

And if you have a successful company, then who gives a smeg about MBAs?

I am off to my office now.

[norrahe]

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Anyone read this?