Is it that only MBA qualified profesional could become successful Managersor even an experienced person could ?
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Hi Savi,
I can say that the MBA is not only required to become a successful manager, but also experience and time management play a vital role in achieving success as a manager. Many people become successful managers even without studying. I believe that hard work and honesty will be honored by God, so please strive to act righteously.
From India, Hyderabad
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I can say that the MBA is not only required to become a successful manager, but also experience and time management play a vital role in achieving success as a manager. Many people become successful managers even without studying. I believe that hard work and honesty will be honored by God, so please strive to act righteously.
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Dear Savvio ji,
Your question, "Do only MBA qualified individuals become successful?" Some months back, I read an article on top CEOs in India with no B-School qualification. I tried to search for it but could not find it. I am sure I can share it with you in a couple of days.
There are many successful CEOs and business tycoons who dropped out in high school or college. A few names that can be mentioned are: Bill Gates - Microsoft, Charles Culpeper - Coca Cola, Dov Charney - American Apparel, Henry Ford - Ford Motor, Larry Ellison - Oracle Software, Ray Kroc - McDonald's, Steve Jobs - Apple, Michael Dell - Dell Inc., and many more.
To be a successful businessman or business manager, one should have a positive attitude, a business mindset, a learning attitude, and a winning attitude. One should possess 2D - Desire and Dedication.
Today's B-Schools will be a different subject.
Thank you.
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Your question, "Do only MBA qualified individuals become successful?" Some months back, I read an article on top CEOs in India with no B-School qualification. I tried to search for it but could not find it. I am sure I can share it with you in a couple of days.
There are many successful CEOs and business tycoons who dropped out in high school or college. A few names that can be mentioned are: Bill Gates - Microsoft, Charles Culpeper - Coca Cola, Dov Charney - American Apparel, Henry Ford - Ford Motor, Larry Ellison - Oracle Software, Ray Kroc - McDonald's, Steve Jobs - Apple, Michael Dell - Dell Inc., and many more.
To be a successful businessman or business manager, one should have a positive attitude, a business mindset, a learning attitude, and a winning attitude. One should possess 2D - Desire and Dedication.
Today's B-Schools will be a different subject.
Thank you.
From India, Mumbai
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To become a successful Manager one must be a GOOD LEADER and there are lot more skills to be developed. I don’t think MBA is required. With profound regards
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From India, Chennai
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I appreciate everyone comments and suggestionsacncy for a senior level position. then why is it made mandatory for MBA qualified when there is a v
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Dear Savvio, I do agree with both Akanoray and Skhadir. I feel that MBA should be preferred rather required. Moreover, to gain COMPETENCY skills and experience are the required attributes.
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Dear Savvio,
Most of us mistake learning and qualification are synonyms. Acquiring qualification does not necessarily imply learning. Learning is a continuous process and depends on one's attitude. There a number of examples learned men and women with out acquiring any qualification. People like Dirubai Amabani struggled hard to make Reliance Industries empire where qualified people served him for a price. It is ultimately one's attitude, skills and the hard work they put in which is unique and not taught in any university decides the success.
Here is a humorous article I have received some time back which may help us to understand the difference between Qualification and intelligence.
Story of a Cowboy
A cowboy named Mark was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?”
Mark looks at the man, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”
The man parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPhone that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his iPhone and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Mark.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Mark says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a Consultant”, says Mark.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the man, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used thousands of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter you are than I am; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living – or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ….
Now give me back my dog.
Moral: All Qualified are not intelligent and an intelligent not necessarily be qualified.
From India, Hyderabad
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Most of us mistake learning and qualification are synonyms. Acquiring qualification does not necessarily imply learning. Learning is a continuous process and depends on one's attitude. There a number of examples learned men and women with out acquiring any qualification. People like Dirubai Amabani struggled hard to make Reliance Industries empire where qualified people served him for a price. It is ultimately one's attitude, skills and the hard work they put in which is unique and not taught in any university decides the success.
Here is a humorous article I have received some time back which may help us to understand the difference between Qualification and intelligence.
Story of a Cowboy
A cowboy named Mark was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?”
Mark looks at the man, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”
The man parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPhone that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his iPhone and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Mark.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Mark says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a Consultant”, says Mark.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the man, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used thousands of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter you are than I am; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living – or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ….
Now give me back my dog.
Moral: All Qualified are not intelligent and an intelligent not necessarily be qualified.
From India, Hyderabad
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Dear Savvio,
Hope your weekend was great!
There is a proverb in English: if you give value to something, something will come into your life. For example, if you give value to a friend, a friend will come into your life. The same concept applies to an MBA. Approximately 1+ lakh students are graduating from colleges every year with certificates, yet few work on the skills they learned during their MBA, such as business intelligence, backward integration, MIS, motivation, team building, analytics, etc.
A person with good work exposure and learning will likely be a better manager compared to someone with an MBA. However, your frustration towards MBA individuals might stem from the expectation of companies where you apply for jobs. They may anticipate MBA individuals to handle certain tasks since they do not need to teach everything to manage a new client.
Taking myself as an example - I am an MBA graduate with 6 years of experience, but I am struggling to utilize my MBA effectively. All the companies I have worked for do not require an MBA, just a bag, bike, petrol, and catalog. There is no need for any skills, just work like a donkey.
Therefore, control your frustration towards MBAs and strengthen your determination. Whenever you encounter someone with a double degree, remember that you are far better than him/her.
Good day!
From India, Bangalore
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Hope your weekend was great!
There is a proverb in English: if you give value to something, something will come into your life. For example, if you give value to a friend, a friend will come into your life. The same concept applies to an MBA. Approximately 1+ lakh students are graduating from colleges every year with certificates, yet few work on the skills they learned during their MBA, such as business intelligence, backward integration, MIS, motivation, team building, analytics, etc.
A person with good work exposure and learning will likely be a better manager compared to someone with an MBA. However, your frustration towards MBA individuals might stem from the expectation of companies where you apply for jobs. They may anticipate MBA individuals to handle certain tasks since they do not need to teach everything to manage a new client.
Taking myself as an example - I am an MBA graduate with 6 years of experience, but I am struggling to utilize my MBA effectively. All the companies I have worked for do not require an MBA, just a bag, bike, petrol, and catalog. There is no need for any skills, just work like a donkey.
Therefore, control your frustration towards MBAs and strengthen your determination. Whenever you encounter someone with a double degree, remember that you are far better than him/her.
Good day!
From India, Bangalore
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Dear Savvio
You don’t have to be a Harvard or IIM graduate to be successful. Good business schools matter; but going to them is no guarantee for success. Successful business leaders are not a customised product coming out of the assembly line of universities, Indian or Foreign.
Shrewd and knowledgeable moves are acquired from experience as many successful business leaders have proved. Business experiences do not allow one to make mistakes; but experience is gained by making mistakes. Basic requirement of a businessman is the ability to foresee future, dynamism, motivation and the ability to involve others in their dream to success. A deep desire to create something new and exceptional is a key factor. Initiative is a combination of three qualities namely courage, self confidence, and decisiveness. Initiative is a capacity for assuming responsibility for starting and doing things with little or no guidance.
Initiative, Courage, Wisdom, Passion and attitude are not taught in any school. Some things only life can teach you not business schools. Business school teach you case studies. But qualities such as vision, focus, passion, attitudes, self belief, willingness to accept risks, willingness to accept uncertainties and creativity are difficult to learn. Formal education in management helps to channelize these qualities and is high in knowledge. Skills are invariably developed through practice. Training in business helps one achieve goals more effectively and efficiently. This is not to say that an MBA degree is useless. Management schools have produced some great business managers world wide. But all students who have acquired MBA degree have not become great business managers.
From India, Bangalore
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You don’t have to be a Harvard or IIM graduate to be successful. Good business schools matter; but going to them is no guarantee for success. Successful business leaders are not a customised product coming out of the assembly line of universities, Indian or Foreign.
Shrewd and knowledgeable moves are acquired from experience as many successful business leaders have proved. Business experiences do not allow one to make mistakes; but experience is gained by making mistakes. Basic requirement of a businessman is the ability to foresee future, dynamism, motivation and the ability to involve others in their dream to success. A deep desire to create something new and exceptional is a key factor. Initiative is a combination of three qualities namely courage, self confidence, and decisiveness. Initiative is a capacity for assuming responsibility for starting and doing things with little or no guidance.
Initiative, Courage, Wisdom, Passion and attitude are not taught in any school. Some things only life can teach you not business schools. Business school teach you case studies. But qualities such as vision, focus, passion, attitudes, self belief, willingness to accept risks, willingness to accept uncertainties and creativity are difficult to learn. Formal education in management helps to channelize these qualities and is high in knowledge. Skills are invariably developed through practice. Training in business helps one achieve goals more effectively and efficiently. This is not to say that an MBA degree is useless. Management schools have produced some great business managers world wide. But all students who have acquired MBA degree have not become great business managers.
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It is not necessary for a good manager to have an MBA. In fact, for senior positions, hands-on managerial experience is desired. Also, sorry to say that the standard in some b-schools is poor in areas of encouraging innovation, creative thinking, and above all, in building leadership skills.
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