“Next to analysis, communication skills must count among the most important for future masters of the universe. To their credit, business schools do stress these skills, and force their students to engage in make-believe presentations to one another. On the whole, however, management education has been less than a boon for those who value free and meaningful speech. M.B.A.s have taken obfuscatory jargon — otherwise known as bullshit — to a level that would have made even the Scholastics blanch. As students of philosophy know, Descartes dismantled the edifice of medieval thought by writing clearly and showing that knowledge, by its nature, is intelligible, not obscure.”
– Philosopher and Business Consultant Matthew Stewart, “The Management Myth,” The Atlantic Online, June 2006
Now you tell me!!!
BTW. you gave me an F for not participating in loads of, how Stewart’s calling it? Bullshit? In the school forum, remember? All of my efforts to stray from BS was applauded only by you, but peers expected me to blend in by ignoring me and I gave up. Hence the F.
Can you be an MBA and not fit this profile? I mean, not just holding the degree (you’re not fitting this description yourself obviously) but really BEING an MBA?