If you’ve been receiving to our newsletters for a while, you’ve probably benefited already from all the great deals on GMAT test prep classes, admissions consultations and job search sites. If you misplaced some of those discount codes and want to finally take advantage of them, here is a complete list of all the discounts offered exclusively for the MBA Podcaster community
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DEALS and DISCOUNTS for MBA Applicants and Students
The lizard brain adores a deadline that slips, an item that doesn’t ship and most of all, busywork. These represent safety, because if you don’t challenge the status quo, you can’t be made fun of, can’t fail, can’t be laughed at. And so the resistance looks for ways to appear busy while not actually doing anything
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Modern procrastination
The Bologna Process has led to several systemic reforms in European higher education, including new degree structures, credit s…
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Transatlantic recognition issues: seeking new directions in the twenty-first century article by E. Stephen Hunt
If you’ve got an idea worth spreading, I hope you’ll consider this random assortment of rules. Like all rules, some are made to be broken, but still… You can name your idea anything you like, but a google-friendly name is always better than one that isn’t.
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Random rules for ideas worth spreading
The work you do when you spread the word or run an ad or invent a policy is likely aimed at one of these four groups. Strangers are customers to be, but not yet Critics are those that would speak ill of you, or need to be converted Friends are those that might have given permission, or even buy now and then Fans are members of your tribe, supporters and insiders You already know the truth: can’t please all these groups at once. And you also probably realize that each of us with an idea to spread has a knee jerk default, the one we lean to without thinking
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Strangers, Critics, Friends or Fans
Free is something you get, no matter what. A bonus is something you get as an add-on when you purchase something, or trade your attention. The purpose of free is to spread the word, alert the universe and generate interest.
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The difference between a bonus and free
[I'll be updating this post all day, just fyi, click through to see the latest update] You know by now that I haven't gone to any traditional media for the launch of my new book – no pitches to newspapers, magazines, or television. Instead, I went directly to my readers and the many intelligent voices online. I sent review copies by request to my readers – who were generous and creative in their reviews, and now we'll hear from the bloggers and other online denizens
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The 2.0 media tour
Business plans with too much detail, books with too much proof, politicians with too much granularity… it seems as though more data is a good thing, because data proves the case. In my experience, data crowds out faith.
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Too much data leads to not enough belief
Find a calling and then deliver. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr. HT to Andy .
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When I was at MOMA last week, I saw a list of director and artist Tim Burton’s projects. Here’s the guy who’s responsible for some of the most breathtaking movies of his generation, and the real surprise is this: almost every year over the last thirty, he worked on one or more exciting projects that were never green lighted and produced.
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Unrealized projects
It’s easy to get trapped wondering what consumers want, and then being frustrated when you can’t get what you cook up in front of the people who want to buy it. It’s easy to forget what industry wants. Supermarkets don’t want unbranded fruits and vegetables, because handling is expensive and it’s hard to differentiate and charge extra.
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What the industry wants
This blog post was influenced by one of our listeners! We received a question asking: “How do you stay fit while working toward an MBA after all those demanding hours?” It’s definitely true that getting your MBA demands a lot of your time. That’s why time management is such an important skill to master. Since Mia and I are both currently in our MBA programs, we both gave our two cents: Mia’s response: “It’s really hard! I gained 17 pounds so far during the MBA program
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Staying Fit During the MBA Program
With tuition costs for MBA programs in the tens of thousands, if not reaching ten 10,000’s – (trick question), wouldn’t it be great if someone else paid for your MBA? If you don’t have a sugar daddy or mamma, maybe your employer has a tuition reimbursement program.
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Getting Your Employer to Fund Your MBA: Making The Argument
One of the most common things I hear is, “I’d like to do something remarkable like that, but my xyz won’t let me.” Where xyz = my boss, my publisher, my partner, my licensor, my franchisor, etc. Well, you can fail by going along with that and not doing it, or you can do it, cause a ruckus and work things out later. In my experience, once it’s clear you’re willing (not just willing, but itching, moving, and yes, implementing) without them, things start to happen
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Without them
Technicians who invented it, run it Technicians with taste, leverage it Artists take over from the technicians MBAs take over from the artists Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality TV used to be driven by the guys who knew how to run cameras and transmitters. Then it got handed off to the Ernie Kovacs/Rod Serling types. Then the financial operators like ITT and Gulf + Western milked it
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Evolution of every medium
Listeners with engineering backgrounds often write to us wanting to know how candidates like them fare in the application process, what can help set them apart from their fellow engineer applicants, what their degree options are, and what career opportunities will an MBA open up to them. We’ll address all of these issues (and more) in an upcoming podcast. Today, I spoke with two current MBA students from the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program who were both engineers before coming back to campus and who are both using their MBA to expand their careers beyond the traditional engineering track.
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MBA’s for Engineers? A Student’s Perspective, Part II
“Military personnel have the leadership skills, the ethics, drive, and decision-making skills that major corporations want, however, they are often lacking the theoretical business know-how.” That’s what Ethan Hanabury, Senior Associate Dean for Degree Programs at Columbia Business School observes. Those unique skills — and the lack of a few key skills — lead many military personnel to MBA schools. Dean Hanabury suggests military applying to schools such as Columbia, reach out to military already on campus to get tips to writing strong applications.
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If You’re Military, MBA Might Be a Good Fit
We often get the question ‘does an MBA make sense for engineers?’ To answer the question, I’ve been working on an upcoming MBA Podcaster show. What kind of personality does it take for an engineer to be admitted and then succeed in business school? How should applicants with engineering backgrounds present themselves to schools, especially if they’re a self-described ‘pocket-calculator nerd’, i.e
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MBA’s for Engineers? Definitely. Tips on Getting In.
“Once you combine the leadership and management experience of a military member with the formal business training you get out of an MBA program, that person is a powerful and valuable resource for the corporation. So it’s a really great value proposition for the student, as well as for the company, and therefore for the school.” That statement comes from an Air Force veteran who served six years as an intelligence officer.
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Going from the Military to the MBA – A Student’s Perspective
I’m working on an upcoming MBA Podcaster show focusing on real-life career opportunities for Green MBAs. Everyone is talking about going green these days but how does the global green movement translate into GREEN $$ for business school grads? Who’s hiring and where’s the growth going to come from in the green movement?
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Career Opportunities for Green MBAs: Talking to Ellen Weinreb, Sustainability Recruiter