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It can sing and dance... hopefully soon it will be able to play baseball, bike ride, and go for hikes so I will have more time to slave away at my meanial labor.
I hope you are not, or never are in charge of anything.
It doesn't take formal education to be a good manager. It takes common sense, logical thinking, and good communication - and most importantly EXPERIENCE. If you have an IQ of 50, and enough money you can buy yourself any degree you want. Having a Harvard MBA doesn't mean you are any better at managing anything than the person who spent their time gaining experience. It just means you had more money.
The problem with todays thinking is that you need a management degree to manage (or commerce degree or whatever piece of paper you think makes you smarter than the next guy). The best managers are ones that are confident in their ability to do a job and do the job better than anyone around them. Yes, this probably requires a degree - and maybe an advanced degree can help prove that you are willing to work hard twoards your goals. But the best education is through experience - experience in the area you are managing. Most managers now are tossed around a company, never spending more than a year or two in any part of it. These managers never get a deep understanding of what they are working on and lack the confidence to deal with anyone questioning their decisions.
I worked at an auto company (the four lettered F word) and saw this first hand. Two years was all I could stomach. Putting bean counters and MBAs where an experienced engineer belongs is resulting in the short sighted, implosion many large corporations are faced with. MBAs have thier place - but not in product development or manufacturing - in these places the engineer calls the shot and uses input from the MBA to make the best decisions which will be best for the company, and employees over the LONG TERM.
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Here's a cheap solution... http://www.dirtbag.biz/
It can sing and dance... hopefully soon it will be able to play baseball, bike ride, and go for hikes so I will have more time to slave away at my meanial labor.
It doesn't take formal education to be a good manager. It takes common sense, logical thinking, and good communication - and most importantly EXPERIENCE. If you have an IQ of 50, and enough money you can buy yourself any degree you want. Having a Harvard MBA doesn't mean you are any better at managing anything than the person who spent their time gaining experience. It just means you had more money.
The problem with todays thinking is that you need a management degree to manage (or commerce degree or whatever piece of paper you think makes you smarter than the next guy). The best managers are ones that are confident in their ability to do a job and do the job better than anyone around them. Yes, this probably requires a degree - and maybe an advanced degree can help prove that you are willing to work hard twoards your goals. But the best education is through experience - experience in the area you are managing. Most managers now are tossed around a company, never spending more than a year or two in any part of it. These managers never get a deep understanding of what they are working on and lack the confidence to deal with anyone questioning their decisions.
I worked at an auto company (the four lettered F word) and saw this first hand. Two years was all I could stomach. Putting bean counters and MBAs where an experienced engineer belongs is resulting in the short sighted, implosion many large corporations are faced with. MBAs have thier place - but not in product development or manufacturing - in these places the engineer calls the shot and uses input from the MBA to make the best decisions which will be best for the company, and employees over the LONG TERM.