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To: Bernard
MBA’s have been screwing up companies for a long time.

Definitely. That has been my experience. I had a customer about 12 years ago that hired me to perform an architectural analysis (IT) and produce a report. The director that was responsible for reviewing my work product was dumb as dirt. She had an MBA from Brown and let everyone know it … constantly. She called into question some of the financial calculations in the report. So I sent her the Excel workbooks that I used in the report. Not only she didn’t understand the finance involved, she didn’t know how to use Excel.

I did more work for her after that contract and I became her go-to tutor for Excel. I laughed all the way to the bank. Over the years I have made boat loads of money from weak minded and poorly educated imbeciles. One of their best qualities is they are unable to make a decision and stick to it. That’s a goldmine in consulting. Change requests are a beautiful thing.

Ignorance leads to hesitation and others profit from it.

177 posted on 04/10/2023 4:10:55 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’ve always suspected that one key skill taught in MBA programs was how to not be in the same room as a decision. That’s why large companies hire them; the company thinks it can afford to carry the dead weight and virtue signal at the same time.


179 posted on 04/10/2023 7:41:42 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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