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MBA required? |
| Message Name: |
Re: Please Clarify |
| Date Posted: |
12/04/2002 |
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rosebery, would you please explain your response? I don't understand what exactly "real world exposure to business..." and how it relates. I can't tell if your use of the word "unneccesary" is qualitative or whether you are saying that one can, in fact, be a mgt consultant without an mba.
Also, do you actually believe consulting is failing? If there is a downward trend do you feel that it is more than the state of the economy? Have businesses wizened up enough to do audit their own procedures? |
| Message: |
You definitely don't need an MBA...you do need to have worked (e.g. how do you credibly advise the tightrope walker if you've never done it yourself ?).
Any sane business, today, has access to most of the learning provided within business schools (check out the web for example). Increasingly, the wise company knows that "the emperor has no clothes".
The exception was Enron - hope you noted that McKinsey claimed that, in spite of the outcome, they had advised them correctly (ho hum !!!).
Businesses use us for very poor reasons:
a) Arse covering
b) Nepotism (i.e. Accenture)
c) Laziness
Most of what we provide is already "out there" - how do you think WE get it ?
Much of what we peddle is recycled.
I'm not putting you off - get in and learn as much as you can quickly, then get out and use what you learnt to put the cons out of business !
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