MBA Schools; Are They Worth It?

If you are considering a career in business then you know you must get an MBA. But what if you are going to start your own company or work with a fast moving start-up? Well perhaps an MBA may not be what it once was. Why is that you ask?

Well as an entrepreneur I have some comments about all this. You see, as far as academia is concerned, I have given enough speeches at enough colleges and universities teaching business to know that those kids are not as bright as purported. Some of the questions they ask after or during the speeches scare me to think these kids will soon be business people. Well not in my company, that is for sure. Scary stuff. Does that mean the kids are stupid; No, certainly not, they simply have not been taught how the real world works.

Currently, I have very little use for academics other than the scientific research in hyper advancing technologies and even that is limited to certain programs within only certain schools. You see, Universities are too liberal, deny observation for political correctness and talk too much and do little of anything? Yet sport their high-flying resumes in everyone's face as if they actually know something that those who do it every day do not.

So, the possibility of real entrepreneuer doing business with an academic? Probably not, except to sell them on an idea or an account to solve a problem that has perplexed them and they cannot figure out an efficient method to do it themselves due to being stuck in linear academic thought while shackled and watching flickerings as cave dwellers. Consider all this in 2006.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington