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What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
BATB score: 4/10 🙄👎🥱 10/10 for the book title #clickbait 4/10 for the numerous self-anecdotes #selfpraise and under-developed concepts. At most common sense techniques in business. This book deserves to die. Best to: read the elaborated negotiating principles in "How to Talk to Anyone" - Leil Lowndes; and the office politics principles in "Power" - Jeffrey Pfeffer Best as: toilet reads, each topic takes like 3 minutes to read and 3 seconds to digest the minimal gist that e


The Visual MBA: a Quick Guide to Everything You'll Learn in Two Years of Business School by Jason Barron
BATB score: 6/10 for the darling graphics 🍭 Proof that investing in an MBA to learn the principles is over-rated. Investing in an MBA to find a wife/husband is more acceptable. #valueformoney Best as: it feels like talking to a consultant. You got all the frameworks and the paper concepts down, you look smart, sharp and credible; but we all know that you are full of air #shallow #airhead Best for: go get an MBA when you are single and make sure that you get that certificate


The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
BATB score: 4/10 🌧 cloudy with a chance of murky brain Best to: this is not a book, this is an encyclopedia; 200+ MBA concepts dump into one thick-ass book in 200+ short introductory snippets - too brief for in-depth understanding and too shallow for any practical adaptation Best for: personally, pursuing an MBA and/or climbing the corporate ladder has nothing to do with how many MBA concepts you get to learn and remember Best as: a smart-ass encyclopedia that makes your she
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