The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition provides a clear overview of the essentials of every major business topic: entrepreneurship, product development, marketing, sales, negotiation, accounting, finance, productivity, communication, psychology, leadership, systems design, analysis, and operations management...all in one comprehensive volume.
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The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition provides a clear overview of the essentials of every major business topic: entrepreneurship, product development, marketing, sales, negotiation, accounting, finance, productivity, communication, psychology, leadership, systems design, analysis, and operations management...all in one comprehensive volume.
Thinking of dropping out of my last 2 years of High School, do you think this is a substitute?
If you do drop out, go straight to a community college and sign up. The classes are more interesting and you'll have more freedom to study what you want. In most states you can get it free or dirt cheap, and you do not need to finish high school first.
Once you have an associates degree, no one will care if you finished high school, and you'll be in a good position to transfer to a university for a bachelor's--and you'll be two years ahead of your high school peers to boot!
From what I've gathered going through this with my son this year as a HS senior, the trend is to send your kids to the best public college in your state (or the best one they can get into). People still value a degree, but the ROI for a private college education (unless it's primarily paid for through financial aid) is rapidly declining.
As a hiring manager of technical folks, I don't think I can recall where any of my employees went to undergrad. After your first few jobs, it's mostly irrelevant to the point that I simply check off that they have a degree and that it's in a relevant field when screening candidate resumes.
This is the way.
IMHO, you're a fool if you don't go in-state (unless you get into an Ivy or similar-caliber school). You are approaching this correctly with your son.
The amount of students I teach who pay out-of-state tuition (3-4x more than in-state) is astounding.
Depends. This book is fantastic but a lot of it makes sense only in retrospect after you've started a business, so this is more of a validation and finetuning than learning from scratch.
So before you decide to drop off HS, you have to ask yourself if you're the kind of person who will put customer needs and wants ahead of your needs and wants.
To those who have started a successful business, this is the key to customer discovery, which is the first step to a successful business and a lot of people stumble on this very first step because they put their own needs and wants ahead of the customer's.
They also don't teach any of this in HS, college or M.S. so it's not like you will learn this at school anyways but that wont matter if you have no interest in this.
If you took this book to a "business" school professor, specially ones who have never ever started an actual business from scratch, their heads would explode and evacuate their bowels from the stress of being confronted with alien concepts.
FWIW, I've heard good things about this book, but it also contains only a tiny sliver of what is covered in a top-tier MBA program.
MBAs don't teach you jack about running a small business. That's just not what they are about, especially on the upper end. My MBA was particularly technical and heavy on math (by MBA standards)...and I didn't even go down a finance track which can get even more detailed and distant from anything a small business would ever touch. MBAs are mostly made for taking you from being a small cog in to being a big important gear in the same machine. E.g. Engineers transferring to management roles, investment bankers, strategy, product managers, etc.
This book is best for non-business folk who need to find the business side of their personality. Someone who's starting up their own small business doing something they already know how to do, someone who has advanced in a small business and needs to take more responsibility, etc.
It is not really meant for an engineer at Ford who is moving into a senior corporate role and suddenly needs to know what a credit default swap is or some consultant whose future job is going to be to come in to a company and try to shift corporate culture to embrace a new production process...
Depends. This book is fantastic but a lot of it makes sense only in retrospect after you've started a business, so this is more of a validation and finetuning than learning from scratch.
So before you decide to drop off HS, you have to ask yourself if you're the kind of person who will put customer needs and wants ahead of your needs and wants.
To those who have started a successful business, this is the key to customer discovery, which is the first step to a successful business and a lot of people stumble on this very first step because they put their own needs and wants ahead of the customer's.
They also don't teach any of this in HS, college or M.S. so it's not like you will learn this at school anyways but that wont matter if you have no interest in this.
If you took this book to a "business" school professor, specially ones who have never ever started an actual business from scratch, their heads would explode and evacuate their bowels from the stress of being confronted with alien concepts.
HS is High School. College is College. What is M.S.?
Thinking of dropping out of my last 2 years of High School, do you think this is a substitute?
Dropping out it's not the best idea, but if you're thinking about it, you could also look into a vocational, trade, or technical schools. They'll train you for the specific job you want to do so you can jump right into the workforce.
Thinking of dropping out of my last 2 years of High School, do you think this is a substitute?
My son hated his first year of high school. He was able to enroll in a program called "Early College High School" which is taught at the local community college. He is now earning dual credits, and will graduate on time with both a high school diploma and a 2 year associates degree. That change of venue and escaping the high school drama and nonsense made a huge difference for him. Maybe there is something equivalent available to you. Just to be clear, this isn't some advanced placement, A-student only program, it's for regular students who want to be in a more mature and self-paced environment. Best of luck to you.
How did you graduate from an Ivy League school without being able to put a sentence together?
You're making your opponent's case for them.
I graduated from a well-ranked law school and did my MBA at a "public Ivy", and tend to agree with you about college. The value proposition of colleges and universities has greatly diminished over time with irrelevant degrees and tuition skyrocketing at a rate that several times that of inflation and other services.
If you're going to go to school, have a plan, know what you want to study, know what it pays on average, and what demand there is for it (growing/shrinking).
Frankly, most office jobs don't require college…just basic reasoning and analytical skills. Very few trades require any "higher" education. And after 3x advanced degrees, I feel I'm in a good position to say that college and university say very little about your actual intellect, they say more about your ability to stick with something for multiple years. And sometimes, they even indicate a lack of intelligence if you graduate college and still aren't functional in the workplace (and sometimes it's bc the skills colleges are teaching are purely academic and hold no real world value). You can be cultured and intellectual on your own time and by reading and challenging yourself. College, in and of itself, doesn't achieve either. It gives you time and opportunities to achieve both things and more.
My advice would be to treat higher education like an investment…and not all investments are good. Be wise, and take Warren Buffet's advice to not invest in anything you don't understand…because academia is a system, it is a machine in a sense, and if you don't understand exactly what you're getting out of that machine, best to avoid it.
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Once you have an associates degree, no one will care if you finished high school, and you'll be in a good position to transfer to a university for a bachelor's--and you'll be two years ahead of your high school peers to boot!
As a hiring manager of technical folks, I don't think I can recall where any of my employees went to undergrad. After your first few jobs, it's mostly irrelevant to the point that I simply check off that they have a degree and that it's in a relevant field when screening candidate resumes.
IMHO, you're a fool if you don't go in-state (unless you get into an Ivy or similar-caliber school). You are approaching this correctly with your son.
The amount of students I teach who pay out-of-state tuition (3-4x more than in-state) is astounding.
IMHO, you're a fool if you don't go in-state (unless you get into an Ivy or similar-caliber school). You are approaching this correctly with your son.
The amount of students I teach who pay out-of-state tuition (3-4x more than in-state) is astounding.
So before you decide to drop off HS, you have to ask yourself if you're the kind of person who will put customer needs and wants ahead of your needs and wants.
To those who have started a successful business, this is the key to customer discovery, which is the first step to a successful business and a lot of people stumble on this very first step because they put their own needs and wants ahead of the customer's.
They also don't teach any of this in HS, college or M.S. so it's not like you will learn this at school anyways but that wont matter if you have no interest in this.
If you took this book to a "business" school professor, specially ones who have never ever started an actual business from scratch, their heads would explode and evacuate their bowels from the stress of being confronted with alien concepts.
FWIW, I've heard good things about this book, but it also contains only a tiny sliver of what is covered in a top-tier MBA program.
MBAs don't teach you jack about running a small business. That's just not what they are about, especially on the upper end. My MBA was particularly technical and heavy on math (by MBA standards)...and I didn't even go down a finance track which can get even more detailed and distant from anything a small business would ever touch. MBAs are mostly made for taking you from being a small cog in to being a big important gear in the same machine. E.g. Engineers transferring to management roles, investment bankers, strategy, product managers, etc.
This book is best for non-business folk who need to find the business side of their personality. Someone who's starting up their own small business doing something they already know how to do, someone who has advanced in a small business and needs to take more responsibility, etc.
It is not really meant for an engineer at Ford who is moving into a senior corporate role and suddenly needs to know what a credit default swap is or some consultant whose future job is going to be to come in to a company and try to shift corporate culture to embrace a new production process...
So before you decide to drop off HS, you have to ask yourself if you're the kind of person who will put customer needs and wants ahead of your needs and wants.
To those who have started a successful business, this is the key to customer discovery, which is the first step to a successful business and a lot of people stumble on this very first step because they put their own needs and wants ahead of the customer's.
They also don't teach any of this in HS, college or M.S. so it's not like you will learn this at school anyways but that wont matter if you have no interest in this.
If you took this book to a "business" school professor, specially ones who have never ever started an actual business from scratch, their heads would explode and evacuate their bowels from the stress of being confronted with alien concepts.
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You're making your opponent's case for them.
If you're going to go to school, have a plan, know what you want to study, know what it pays on average, and what demand there is for it (growing/shrinking).
Frankly, most office jobs don't require college…just basic reasoning and analytical skills. Very few trades require any "higher" education. And after 3x advanced degrees, I feel I'm in a good position to say that college and university say very little about your actual intellect, they say more about your ability to stick with something for multiple years. And sometimes, they even indicate a lack of intelligence if you graduate college and still aren't functional in the workplace (and sometimes it's bc the skills colleges are teaching are purely academic and hold no real world value). You can be cultured and intellectual on your own time and by reading and challenging yourself. College, in and of itself, doesn't achieve either. It gives you time and opportunities to achieve both things and more.
My advice would be to treat higher education like an investment…and not all investments are good. Be wise, and take Warren Buffet's advice to not invest in anything you don't understand…because academia is a system, it is a machine in a sense, and if you don't understand exactly what you're getting out of that machine, best to avoid it.