This is the most terrifying thing that I’ve read in a long time. Please, MBA graduates, stay away from Apple. I beg you. Apple is doing well, it’s making killer products, and your education and skill set will only serve to kill the company.
I’m only partly kidding here - but mostly not. After working at and with large consulting firms in my “previous life”, the attitudes, culture, politics, and ideas of those companies (which LOVE MBA students) do NOT belong at Apple. And the current state of MBA education does not provide the management skills it should. MBAs are not what Apple needs or deserves right now.
Please, MBA students, do not work for Apple. Please, Apple, don’t hire ‘em.
(And the book linked above “Managers Not MBAs” is an excellent book if you’re at all interested in management or getting an MBA.)
Amen to that! Back when I ran my consulting company, I read “Harvard Business Review.” Mostly for laughs. It astounded me to no end that there wasn’t much of any substance in it - no mathematical modeling, no rigorous statistical analysis, nothing of the sort. Just fluff.
I do know some decent MBAs (at Apple, no less) but they’d be just as decent without the initials. Far scarier are the type represented in the article, the “I’m in an MBA program and I want to work for ___!” folks.
I too agree with the post.
The common wisdom is following: if you are good in programming, you become programmer, if you’re good musically you become musician, etc. BUT if you aren’t good in anything you go and work in management