How To Think Critically? How About Banning Harvard Business School!
Seriously, for years we have been all over the brainwashing perpetuated in business schools. It's almost an oxymoron to have a Harvard business school professor give advice on how to think critically. Business schools teach very little of value. In fact, our economy did just fine before we started sending anyone interested in management to MBA programs. Management has always gone to school but instead of theory and paper-pushing bullshit taught at Harvard, they went to the school of hard knocks. They worked the line on a production floor and learned the real business. Or they worked their way up a sales organization. Or some other experience-based learning process. Our educational system played a large role in the incredibly failed economic model we have seen gain traction over the last thirty years. And the corruption associated with it.
I am a firm believer in critical thinking. But these are skills you need to teach yourself. Inquisitiveness cannot be taught in business school. That is preposterous. With a demanding workload of often rote school work, where is the time to think critically? Critical thinking is not a homework assignment. Additionally, people attracted to business school are not typically the most inquisitive in society. Instead it is the artist, the writer, the musician, the inventor, the tinkerer and the scientist. It is the very people who eschew the mindless rote babble of business school. When choice enters into the equation, people very often choose a career or college curriculum because it fits their persona. Unfortunately for society, many don't have that choice. If you want to control the world and make a lot of money, you are more likely to go to business school. If you want to find the cure to HIV, you embrace the discovery process so necessary to critical thinking.
It's no coincidence very few MBAs on Wall Street had any idea what hit them in 2008. It's no coincidence that the vast majority of these same people believe they have robbed society blind and got away with it. That they believe this crisis has passed and they have survived.
There are countless ways to teach yourself how to think critically. If you embrace critical thinking, you'll possibly realize the world might possibly be a better place without Harvard Business School. An MBA from Harvard is great to play the political game but don't expect to become the next great critical thinker. Instead, you will be qualified to be a bureaucrat. A manager. A CEO. Someone who, more often than not, stifles the innovation and creativity of society.
I am a firm believer in critical thinking. But these are skills you need to teach yourself. Inquisitiveness cannot be taught in business school. That is preposterous. With a demanding workload of often rote school work, where is the time to think critically? Critical thinking is not a homework assignment. Additionally, people attracted to business school are not typically the most inquisitive in society. Instead it is the artist, the writer, the musician, the inventor, the tinkerer and the scientist. It is the very people who eschew the mindless rote babble of business school. When choice enters into the equation, people very often choose a career or college curriculum because it fits their persona. Unfortunately for society, many don't have that choice. If you want to control the world and make a lot of money, you are more likely to go to business school. If you want to find the cure to HIV, you embrace the discovery process so necessary to critical thinking.
It's no coincidence very few MBAs on Wall Street had any idea what hit them in 2008. It's no coincidence that the vast majority of these same people believe they have robbed society blind and got away with it. That they believe this crisis has passed and they have survived.
There are countless ways to teach yourself how to think critically. If you embrace critical thinking, you'll possibly realize the world might possibly be a better place without Harvard Business School. An MBA from Harvard is great to play the political game but don't expect to become the next great critical thinker. Instead, you will be qualified to be a bureaucrat. A manager. A CEO. Someone who, more often than not, stifles the innovation and creativity of society.
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