Thursday, October 1, 2009

What I've learned in MBA school

Something was said in class today that can pretty much sum up MBA school for me. I think it will stand as my main take away from the whole experience. Ready for it? It's profound.

The whole point of MBA school is to figure out how to be in the upper right quadrant all the time. If you don't know what I'm referring to, then perhaps you aren't in MBA school. Or maybe you are but you haven't been paying attention. Go ahead and draw a four-square grid with an X/Y axis and label the axes accordingly depending on the class in which you are in. Determine where you want your company to be. Not sure where? The answer is (almost) always pick the upper right quadrant, that is where you want to be.

How do you get your company there (if it isn't already)? Well that is the million dollar question, and it is why we are in school. To strategize, to figure it out, and if we can't do that, to fake it.

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