• Treczoks@lemmy.world
    45·
    7 days ago

    As if an MBA was an achievement. My wifes brother made a Harvard MBA in his free time (paid for by his employer), and considered it laughably easy. I’ve read the course books he gave me, and I agree. For someone coming from the natural sciences side of things, MBA is kindergarten level. It is amazing with how little actual knowledge people get into high business positions nowadays.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      7 days ago

      A lot of the elite business communities are entirely extended social groups. Lots of nephews. Lots of professional self-promotionists. Lots of gurus, promising to deliver quasi-spiritualist business secrets. The system they’re attached to is swimming in surplus revenue, so doing relatively simple arbitrage with a big enough line of credit can enrich these well-connected individuals quickly. And putting someone with connections to easy credit onto your board is a great way to grow your company.

      MBAs get to operate at the kindergarten level because they’re playing with billions of dollars in a game that is designed to guarantee they (mostly) walk away winners.

      Trump is a classic example. Lose a billion dollars, go out and find another line of credit, gamble on double or nothing, market goes up so you win it all back again. Nobody asks where this credit is coming from or why The Donald is uniquely positioned to draw on it. Elon has a similar story. He just keeps spinning the wheel and doubling down, confident that the game has a positive ROI, so he’ll always come out ahead in the end.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 days ago

      No? I think the other question is what the community is for? I think it’s appropriate based off the community description, although I don’t remember the last time I have seen a post that wasn’t obviously satire.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      This is a guy on LinkedIn who has made minor internet celebrity out of posting cringe. He makes regular appearances on LinkedInLunatics. Not entirely sure if he’s a deranged business geek or a Dril still hoax account. But he baits enough people for it to be a moot point. Dude is definitely channeling a vibe.

      • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        6 days ago

        Thank you, I’m actually happy to hear this :) the alternative would have shaken my trust in humanity even more.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Honestly the pacing to me, the final punchline, etc. all scream that it’s intentional satire. That and the “I want to connect with you emotionally :)” cemented it for me

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    161·
    7 days ago

    Yeah, these fucking idiots without an MBA. Einstein, Hawking, DaVinci, etc

  • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com
    8·
    7 days ago

    Lemmy users be like “Is the guy with the “I want to connect with you, emotionally :)” being serious?”

  • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    I went to business school and was in classes with people from a bunch of different business majors.

    Most people are book smart and can pass a test, but are otherwise stupid.

    I also regularly meet different C-suite executives for work. Again, most are only good at one or two things. Efficiency isn’t one of them.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      At the end of the day efficiency is math. And I once decided to be lazy and for a technical elective take the business version of a class I’d already taken the engineering version of. I didn’t expect the math to be at the same level, business bachelor’s don’t need stats 2 and calc 2, both of which came up in the engineering version. But when there were groans at finding a basic slope and arithmetic I knew I didn’t belong there. I should’ve taken circuits 2 instead, it would’ve at least not bored the hell out of me

      • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Efficiency is math, but often it’s more than that depending on how it’s used. For example, I work in health care. We can apply lean principles and create a ton of efficiency on one aspect, but we will lose on others, like patient care, re-admissions, and quality. Math is correct, but it’s not everything. This is literally my job and I’m lean 6 sigma certified.

        Also, for my business degree I took stats 2 and operational supply processing which was just stats 2 with application. So I’d say it depends on the school and degree. Didn’t need Calc 2, but I also took both a Calc with applied geometry and a business Calc. Business Calc was a joke.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
          21·
          7 days ago

          We can apply lean principles and create a ton of efficiency on one aspect, but we will lose on others

          The math can still handle your problems.

          You have to consider all dimensions simultaneously when optimising. The problem then becomes one of judgement. How important is patient care vs quality vs re-admissions. Which should have the larger relative weight?

          • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 days ago

            That’s not how it works in healthcare FYI. Bad patient care means people die, Bad quality means there are complications or infections, Re-admissions means the hospital doesn’t get paid on the follow up visit.

            I’m not trying to argue, I’m letting you know something that I’m an expert in. Math can literally create better healthcare, but there is always the human and clinical element and that can’t always be quantified.