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  • 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 (7,197 ratings)

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

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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 Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business.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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Inspiring and surprising!

Awesome and surprising book with great coverage of self management, life goals, etc. I would recommend this to anyone looking to get their shit together!

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Great resource found myself going back to audio

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I found the section on sales and marketing very helpful. I use this now as a resource and have reviewed several times as I modify my marketing & sales techniques.

What other book might you compare The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business to and why?

like eMyth by Michael Gerber

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

marketing chapter was great

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Vast, but simple

Josh takes extremely complicated business concepts and simplifies them, making them interesting and easy to follow with great illustrations. This book was very useful to me as a budding businessperson.

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More like an associate's degree then in MBA

I certainly took quite a few bullets and points out of this book and wrote them down. It made me look at my business from a holistic perspective, but I certainly didn't feel like I got an MBA. Maybe an associate's degree?

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Fundamental to Advanced... great information.

Would you consider the audio edition of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business to be better than the print version?

Yes. I really like that I am able to listen to this while doing other activities. I found that on the second time listening, I can increase the speed and finish the book quicker while still getting all the information.

What other book might you compare The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business to and why?

This is a unique read to me.

Have you listened to any of Josh Kaufman’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have not. It was a little slow for me, but good if I was taking notes.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No, but I did have quite a few "A-Ha" moments.

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Great for any business person

Regardless of whether you agree with the author's argument that getting an MBA is not worth the debt and opportunity cost, he does a very good job in synthesizing business concepts and identifying resources for further study. In fact, you can skip the first chapter, and just get into the heart of the book. It is well worth the time.

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Good book

It covers a little of everything needed in business but you need more than basics for success

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a very good read

a very good read.. must for any executive or business guy.. good set of materials researched and presented

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Extremely valuable read!

I have found this book incredibly useful in building out an effective knowledge base of business concepts that I have begin to apply in practice to my business. Very well written, well researched, and well read.

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What a great communicator!!

I will need to listen to it again, but there are many concepts Josh goes over in this book.
The way he comes across telling us about a personal MBA is full of stories that are very easily relatable.
This is much more a book on how to run a successful life, which ironically turns out as the way to run a successful business!!! #nicework

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