• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

  • By: Josh Kaufman
  • Narrated by: Josh Kaufman
  • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (7,142 ratings)

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

By: Josh Kaufman
Narrated by: Josh Kaufman
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Publisher's summary

Audie Award Nominee, Business and Educational, 2013

Getting an MBA is an expensive choice - one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping business school altogether....

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume.

The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

True leaders aren't made by business schools - they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed. Read this book and you will learn the principles it takes most business professionals a lifetime of trial and error to master.

©2010, 2012 Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC (P)2012 Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC
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Great business advice and great reading list

Where does The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Out of roughly 20 books on business that I have read I would easily say that The Personal MBA ranks in my top 5 books. Its a book I would listen to again, as well. However the book doesn't have completely groundbreaking ideas, nor does it proclaim to. It is a very solid compilation of lots of ideas from many very solid books. I would certainly recommend it.

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Useful Business and Elsewhere

Kaufman is a talented writer, but his true talent, if one can call it a talent, is being hungry for knowledge and tenaciously pursuing it to his benefit and others. In this book, we are given many reasons for becoming eternal, self driven learners, not only of methods to improve our businesses, but also our minds and our attitudes. Through real life example and through his many reading recommendations, the author has compiled a text that assuredly imparts useful techniques and methods, but is most valuable as a tantalizing look into how reframing problems and research in business and lifestyle can be immensely rewarding, as it certainly seems to have been for Kaufman.

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great book

Very charming and inspirational,interest, empowering and extremely educational. This captives me from the beginning to the end

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saved me thousand$ & years of effort!

a great book, easily listened to. concepts, exercises, and advice. not just theory. I plan to relisten

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A must Listen!

This was a well thought out book that I can refer to in my MBA. Thanks Josh so much for your wisdom!

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it’s ok

generally useful info with minimal depth. annoying music interlude between frequent chapter changes. so, it’s ok. not great

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Slow start

I liked this book 2 hours in and on. Before that wasn’t valuable to me. I found some valuable ideas in it.

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An overview

Rather quick overview of a lot of simple topics, some more complex than others. It was a good intro that pulls a lot of things together. can't replace an mba as author agrees as it requires a lot of personal learning which this book offers a good start.

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Excellent. MBA's are usually not worth it

Really enjoyed the content. The narration had a few repeated words, but the overall reading was excellent.

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Great summarization of MBA degree

This is the best book to get your feet wet with MBA, in order to get idea what degree will be about. Or you can just keep on reading about the topics mention in the book in order to get deeper into the forest. This one must be read few times.

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