Posted on 10/10/2021 1:41:27 PM PDT by RandFan
A friend sent me this video. He also happens to be a medium sized employer and after watching this he said he would NEVER hire a Harvard MBA.
I was wondering if any Freepers would have the same attitude?
Take a Seat in the Harvard MBA Case Classroom
Bkmk
At FDR in Omaha, they called that mowing the grass. 10% off the top.
I stand corrected. I just checked, and you actually *have* posted articles, etc.
It’s just I have never seen it. Hence my reaction.
Don’t hog all the Cheetos.
‘Pod
I gather you are very proud of your role as the “cut and paste” police...
What a waste of time...I can only assume you are perfect, and have NEVER made an error to be such an absolute nit picker.
That is a class where people are taught not to think but to recite slogans.
This is why I love engineers!! Your a crap shoot to bring into meetings with customers but yours is a black & white world.
Did you uncle have an undergraduate degree?
I understand that many years ago, some MBA programs admitted highly talented candidates that did not have a four year degree.
And here I thought the answer that old joke was "You read their class ring while they're picking their nose."
Did anything happen to the VP? Did he get a golden parachute, or a promotion?
I can’t speak to recent grads, as I’ve been out of the MBA loop for some years now. My experience with the Harvard bunch was that once they got into their program, nobody ever got kicked out. Many came out of it with pretty minimal learning and an arrogant entitled attitude. Managers with decades of experience had their judgement over-ridden by executives who hired Harvard MBA consultants to tell them how to run the business. This never ended well. The firms made unwise acquisitions and got rid of the people who knew the business from the ground up.
It is indeed.
Yup. Telling the customer “We can do that.” and responding to the follow-up question of “How?” with “I haven’t the foggiest idea for exactly how.” isn’t expected to inspire confidence.
I followed that up with “I have 4 approaches in mind, I can run some tests in parallel and tell you the best approach by Monday.”
We got the contract. We delivered under budget and significantly ahead of the promise date.
No idea, not my problem as a former employee.
I was in the first cohort laid off. Not a surprise. My boss was heartbroken, I was fine. I knew it was coming, and he simply refused to believe me when I told him no one told me.
Protip: When everyone in the chain of command above you suddenly won’t look you in the eye when talking to you, update your resume!
Besides, since I’d already made it abundantly clear that I wasn’t moving to New York, I was the most logical person to let go!
But now that you’ve asked, I can’t find any reference to the Frank Schroff that worked at National, so I still have no idea.
No idea, not my problem as a former employee.
I was in the first cohort laid off. Not a surprise. My boss was heartbroken, I was fine. I knew it was coming, and he simply refused to believe me when I told him no one told me.
Protip: When everyone in the chain of command above you suddenly won’t look you in the eye when talking to you, update your resume!
Besides, since I’d already made it abundantly clear that I wasn’t moving to New York, I was the most logical person to let go!
But now that you’ve asked, I can’t find the Frank Schroff that worked at National, so I still have no idea.
Whoops, sorry, I notice that humble’s posts had been deleted.
Wanted to find out when, and lost track of having posted that the first time.
Bold Stroke
They forget that the reason they are in business is to be in business not to operate some woke social reform program.
The Bold Stroks is their way of “doing the right thing” choosing the harder right instead of the easier wrong and being noble and all that crap. Their priorities are misplaced and her understanding is warped.
Accidents happen and people get killed. No company has a safety goal of N accidents per year. The goal is ZERO and sometimes they achieve it. No accidents is the goal but they happen and each is viewed as preventable as a failure of people, process, environment, training or equipment. Even well trained people with great equipment and process have lapses and kill themselves. Sometimes, sadly, it is their own fault but nobody ever says that.
Never buy a car built on Monday or Friday either. Those are bad days for people who build them.
donuts
lots of donuts in the faculty lounge.
Like promotes like.
There was an article in one of the business magazines nearly 30 years ago now, I still have it somewhere. It was at the time of the first great purge, that time of casting off what was left of the Greatest and Silent Generations as well as a legion of increasingly expensive and experienced 40 somethings. Downsizing, right sizing and so forth all promoted by the likes of McKinsey etc.
Anyway, the article said that American business would be changed, not for the better, for at least the next 40 years as the Koolaid drinkers of that time, the ones who bought in to stay in and get ahead, promoted like minded people.
Sure enough.
I survived them, maybe even beat them having become a hired gun myself instead of a wage slave or corporate droid. I worked and earned for my skill, knowledge and experience to create, build and fix things. I could not be one of them or live in the same house with them though. I reveled in excusing myself from any kind of wokeness or social training that did not suit me. I had more important work to do. Neither went unnoticed but what could they do? I had made myself necessary. The keys to the projects were usually between my ears or those of my own colleagues in the firm that I proudly owned. :)
Ain’t that the TRUTH?
We had one once and I had a young engineer who was also a pretty darn good cartoonist. I had him make a big cartoon of a black belt in his garb and labeled it:
Hai!
I am a Harvard MBA!
I can manage anything!
I framed it and hung it in my corner office conspicuously near the art work Engineering Department sign that also said Essayons. That Engineering Department sign was given to me by my Dad from his Engineering Department and made by one of his draftsmen without portfolio. It now hangs in my retirement workshop.
Missed that gravy train didn’t he?
Can’t count how many times I’ve seen similar.
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