Re:Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds
by Judgmentality on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:54AM
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What did you learn from your management courses? Genuinely curious, as I've always found that people with degrees in management were no better (and probably slightly worse) than people that just figured it out. My evidence is anecdotal and limited, so I'd be interested to hear what you found useful about your program.
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Re:Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds
by geomark on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:46AM
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My anecdata from working quite a few years at big tech companies where most of the staff began as technical and then some went off to get business degrees to advance into management, is that the biggest change was they started using a lot of business school buzz words and attached much more importance to spreadsheets and presentations than they used to.
Re:Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds
by Judgmentality on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:03AM
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"2/3 of HBS is BS" -Ben Rich, former Director of Lockheed Skunkworks
Re:Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds
by eksemplar on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:09AM
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Coming from a technical background a lot of the softer sciences were quite new to me personally. Things like social constructivism and the mangement methoods based on it werent completely unfamiliar to me, but learning how to use analysis, understanding and argumentation to steer strategic decision as well as employees in the direction I want, has been immensely useful.