To MBA? Or Not to MBA?
I was recently interviewed for an article on MSNBC.com called MBA not always key to landing a plum job. The message in the article follows its title — an MBA is not a ticket to the C-Suite.
If you read what Eve wrote, you’ll see that I do have my MBA and I’m quite proud of it — but I got it after I’d climbed the corporate ladder about as far as I wanted. For me it was about learning new things, meeting fabulous people, completing a rather difficult task and improving my confidence.
So matriculate if that’s what you want. In fact I highly recommend it if you have the time (and money). But don’t expect miracles on the job.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:46 am
No degree is a ‘golden ticket’ to job success. Perhaps our focus needs to shift from acquiring the initials (BS,MBA,PHD) and ‘being finished’ with education to a process of lifelong learning. We should never stop learning. It should be a continued process of striving to grow, stretch and increase our knowledge in the light new discoveries and advancements. When I attended college computer programming was a heavy burden of computer punch cards held in long cardboard boxes. A friend was reduced to hysterical tears when her box crashed to floor ruining her program. Technology has rocketed past the punch card system but what about the computer programming degree from the past? Unless the programmers of the past committed to a lifelong learning philosophy their old knowledge would have no place in the current field of computer programming. Learning should always be part of our lives. The benefits far out weigh the inconveniences including staving off the aging process of the ‘little gray cells’.