The MBA Pathology | Silicon Valley Product Group
In my last article I highlighted one of the major pathologies leading to weak product managers and weak products. While the CSPO pathology is large and growing, it is relatively new compared to the MBA pathology. I have not written as much about the MBA pathology. It’s alluded to between the lines...
Hasnain says:
I have an incredible amount to learn with respect to product management skills and I’m sure this has its flaws; but this perspective did seem compelling given my experience.
“How many MBA programs are teaching this sort of collaboration, versus still teaching the CPG model where the product manager builds a business case, based on predictions of revenue, and expected expenses for design and engineering, and then defines requirements, and finally looks for someone to implement their brilliant ideas?
My suspicion is that most of the MBA faculty are blissfully unaware of their implicit biases on all this, but I think the evidence that it’s happening, and has been happening for decades, is widespread and compelling.”
Posted on 2021-06-15T03:00:47+0000