Continuing from my previous post (Part 1 of 1), we’ll see how types 2 & 1 affect your career learning curve.
2. MBA, MANAGER: Type 2 individuals are the really successful ones. MBAs who are MANAGERS are the ones that eventually make the moolah while running an organization smoothly. Of course they’re brilliant. But they’re the ones you can expect to be far from approachable and are usually on a much higher corporate rung. Also, you can be certain that MBAs who are MANAGERS will never find themselves out of demand.
Type 2 will mostly be hardworking individuals who have slogged through B-School to make it to where they are. You will surely learn a thing or two about textbook level management from them.
Recommendation: Try your best to keep close, appreciate their effort.
1. Not MBA, MANAGER: Before I begin about Type 1 individuals, chew on this quote.
Spray paint this quote on the walls of your room and memorize it for the remainder of your corporate life. Being efficient is something that comes only through experience & leveraging laziness to achieve efficiency takes a lifetime to learn.
This is why you’ll need to keenly observe MANAGERS who are not MBAs to learn the most. These will be rare to find though. They’re the Mew-Two of the corporate world.
It’s the MBA MANAGERS who will apply Pareto’s Analysis while trying to comprehend root causes of business conundrums threatening to erode away the sales figures for the first quarter of fiscal ’14 and present an effective solution to tackle these problems.
However, it’s the Non-MBA MANAGERS who will see the same solution in a clear light without applying any such analysis.
I do not wish to undermine the importance of MBA MANAGERS. I only wish to highlight the superlative skill that Non-MBA MANAGERS possess in terms of being efficient. Be it the late Dhirubhai Ambani or the late Steve Jobs, the absence of an MBA was not something that affected their meteoric rise or their awe-inspiring influence. All Non-MBA MANAGERS will harp on the importance of ‘Minimum Input, Maximum Output’ & as you proceed through corporate life, you will understand the absolute importance of ‘Laziness’.
Thus remember that Type 1 individuals play the most influential bit in helping you on your way to success regardless of whether or not they are successful.
Recommendation: Learn everything you can from them, then add it to the knowledge you gain from your MBA.
In conclusion, try to learn as much as you can from both MBA MANAGERS as well as Non-MBA MANAGERS. But choose well whose principles you should apply when.