Re:What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
by etripe on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:00AM
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Did you find the MBA trained you to solve those people problems better? Did you get any practical, hands-on experience dealing with people problems during its course, or did it provide an interpretational framework, with true learning follow afterwards, like with a programming degree?
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Re:What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
by marcus_holmes on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:40PM
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I think the latter. We studied formal models of leadership and management. Knowing those really helped me to put some kind of structure on the things that I was dealing with, but ultimately dealing with them came down to interpersonal skills and "walking the walk".
One of the really useful-but-unexpected things was having some kind of head-canon for "what a manager is and isn't" and (in one case) "what a CEO should actually be doing". It was really helpful having a kind of connect-the-dots picture of what should be happening and therefore what dots needed to be connected to make that picture happen.