Posted By Aly Juma / 23rd March 2011
One of my favorite comics is Dilbert by Scott Adams, the following two cartoons are part of a series he did on MBA’s recently.
Ok, this one may be a little unfair and extreme, but its still quite hilarious. The next one is my favorite though.
This one I have to say I agree with completely, simply because I feel like you actually learn and gain value from real world experience, not from studying cases. I think the biggest flaw with the case methodology is the fact that you can’t fail, you can’t be wrong, and therefore you can’t really learn.
In a recent article from Blogging Innovation, Tim Kastelle explores the idea of how “being wrong is the only way to learn.” He goes on to identify the benefit of experimentation, failure and discovering things on your own. This idea of failure and experimentation is a missing component from the MBA, and I think if you don’t know how to fail and experiment and learn, you really don’t have much to fall back on. Schools in general frown upon the idea of failure, but they’re depriving us of one of the most important and valuable lessons in life.
Posted By Aly Juma / 21st November 2010
Here’s the best of the web for this last week:
Want to understand how the world lives online? Check out Digital World’s visualization of online data in the major countries worldwide. Includes stats on What Do We Do Online, How Long We Stay Online, Who Is Most Social, and more.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on how the government should be spending their money, so here’s your chance to show them how its done. A great interactive program from New York Times allows you to make the tough decisions on budget issues.
A brilliant article from frog Design explores the value of play, open environments, and flexible tools for our children and how this impacts their education and creativity.
Do you really know what the internet is? What a browser does? A recent survey revealed that many don’t, so through a collaborative effort, Google brings you an engaging e-book built in HTML5 to inform everyone on what the web is all about.
This is really the question that many entrepreneurs have and there isn’t really a right answer. In this Harvard Business Review article we get a unique perspective from someone who dived right into the entrepreneurial world without an MBA.
