Don't Pay for Your MBA

The Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Get the Business Education You Need

De: Laurie Pickard

Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin

Who needs a mountain of debt?

Each year, the nation's top business schools are flooded with applications from people eager to pursue their MBA dreams. But those aspirations come at a steep price. According to U.S. News and World Report, the average debt load for graduates of NYU's Stern School of Business, MIT's Sloan School of Management, and other top business schools exceeds $100,000.

Like most, author Laurie Pickard couldn't shoulder that. But she faced a dilemma: despite two degrees and a Peace Corps stint, she needed a business education to land her dream job in international development. She decided to take her education into her own hands, and found that some of those same prestigious business schools offer MOOCs (massive online open courses) for low or even no cost. By picking the right classes from the best schools, she gained the skills - without all the debt.

In Don't Pay for Your MBA, Pickard shows self-starters, career changers, and budding entrepreneurs how to navigate the expanding universe of online education. Building on her popular No-Pay MBA blog, Pickard reveals how to:

• Define your goals and tailor a curriculum that works for you
• Master the language of business
• Build a strong network
• Choose a concentration and deepen your expertise
• Showcase your nontraditional education in a way that attracts offers

Self-directed learning fills gaps in your training, positions you for promotions, and opens up new opportunities. Why pay exorbitant tuition when you can MOOC your way to success?

©2018 Laurie Pickard (P)2017 Gildan Media LLC

The examples

I enjoyed the drive verse examples that the author used to show what success meant for non traditional MBA recipients.

Why Do You Listen?!

Ask yourself this question before you purchase this book. Is it to save money? Is it convenience, flexibility and freedom? Is it to learn about what is happening in that domain?

This subject is the next evolution in education that didn't finalize yet, but the book did not take it from that perspective and I thought the subject was being reduced to recommendations on specific courses and later advice on how to land a job. Thus, I believe it went into details that might not apply to all types of readers. Even though, I think it is a good start to learn about education.

This book is sort of giving you the fish rather than teaching you to hunt!