OK,
Under weight of evidence I'm happy to concede that Uni degrees in no way make you more open minded! Gees, if George W is an educated man then that alone completely refutes my argument!
I still reckon an MBA is a great degree and fully support Acey's plans to go get one. But only for those that don't already have a business related undergraduate degree. My undergraduate degree was in IT so my MBA has really helped me round out my general business knowledge.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of people I hold in enormous respect that don't have degrees of any kind. I'm just saying that I also respect those determined enough to do the hard yards to get a degree too, and particularly those that have got an E-MBA from the AGSM as I know just how hard it is to do this one.
It probably didn't help that I was sitting at home (as I am again now) studying for my MBA residential all next week when I read Dale's post. I've had to give up my entire long weekend in preparation. Not to mention all the previous weekends and weeknights given over to study and assignments. I consider my ongoing education to be VERY important, and I consider this MBA to be critical to my future business success, within an organisation or as Director of my own newly formed organisation. So, it doesn't quite sit right when someone says they think they're a waste of time. I personally reckon all education, regardless of the field, NOT to be a waste of time. And I particularly consider my MBA to be some of the best investment in my self-betterment that I've undertaken to date.
So I say go for it to Craig! You'll never look back!!
OK, back to reading about how Jack Welch transformed GE during his two decade tenure. Very insightful specific lessons around focus, stretch goals, culture, values and empowerment. But hey, you wouldn't be interested in all that useless stuff right?...
Cheers,
Michael.
Under weight of evidence I'm happy to concede that Uni degrees in no way make you more open minded! Gees, if George W is an educated man then that alone completely refutes my argument!
I still reckon an MBA is a great degree and fully support Acey's plans to go get one. But only for those that don't already have a business related undergraduate degree. My undergraduate degree was in IT so my MBA has really helped me round out my general business knowledge.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of people I hold in enormous respect that don't have degrees of any kind. I'm just saying that I also respect those determined enough to do the hard yards to get a degree too, and particularly those that have got an E-MBA from the AGSM as I know just how hard it is to do this one.
It probably didn't help that I was sitting at home (as I am again now) studying for my MBA residential all next week when I read Dale's post. I've had to give up my entire long weekend in preparation. Not to mention all the previous weekends and weeknights given over to study and assignments. I consider my ongoing education to be VERY important, and I consider this MBA to be critical to my future business success, within an organisation or as Director of my own newly formed organisation. So, it doesn't quite sit right when someone says they think they're a waste of time. I personally reckon all education, regardless of the field, NOT to be a waste of time. And I particularly consider my MBA to be some of the best investment in my self-betterment that I've undertaken to date.
So I say go for it to Craig! You'll never look back!!
OK, back to reading about how Jack Welch transformed GE during his two decade tenure. Very insightful specific lessons around focus, stretch goals, culture, values and empowerment. But hey, you wouldn't be interested in all that useless stuff right?...
Cheers,
Michael.