A few days ago I finished reading The Personal MBA and now my head is spinning. It's a wonderful feeling to have a sudden point of reference to help you identify what you need to know, what you don't know, but also the things you knew all along (but maybe didn't have the confidence in your ability to trust your insight and wisdom). As Josh Kaufman mentions early on in his book, The Personal MBA is as much a reference as anything else. You don't need to read the book through in one sitting but rather use it as a guide to test various areas of knowledge and learn the 200+ skills, traits and priciples included for your personal and proffesional growth.
I borrowed my copy of The Personal MBA from the King County Library system in keeping with the idea that I'm budgeting my personal education, my DIYMBA, as low cost as possible. I will have to purchase a copy to refer back to because Josh's book is going to be a valuable reference for me in the coming months as I begin to explore various topics that I don't have much working knowledge with. Amazon, here I come!
What's so great about Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA? He provides his readers with exactly what he promised. Outlined in related chapters are distilled insights, laws, rules, anecdotes, examples and guides to help you quickly analyze a situation and make decisions. After reading a few pages in Personal MBA about how to analyze production problems, then synthesize what the solutions might be I instantly realized I had just learned something without any effort. I now have a decision tree of sorts, there's no mystery in my mind about what factors I need to consider when looking at a similar real-life issue.
This book would be an excellent option for someone cutting their teeth in their first management gig, or even someone with a few years under their belt who was likely promoted as a star performer but not given much training on what a "manager" really is. It appears to me that this is a common scenario in today's business world and is the likely cause of high turnover in many companies.
I'm also finding that there is so much chit chat about "Leadership" nowadays that I feel a nearly insurmountable burden of learning awaits my every effort to gain proficiency in these modern "must-have" skill sets that have popped up in pop business culture. As an example yesterday on Twitter I spotted a tweet about Cultural Intelligence. Okay, I thought, this must be a variation on the theme of Emotional Intelligence, and of course we see no shortage of EI reading material on the internet. Is this the new buzzword in pop business lingo on the internet and twitter? Not sure about that but I do know that by following the reading list in Personal MBA I got my hands on a copy of First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. I'm only 75 pages in, and will blog about this great(!) book later, but I already know I need to take this new term, Cultural Intelligence, and distill it down to the essentials, then act from there.
Go get yourself a copy of Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman and watch your confidence, your insight and your ability to act appropriately soar. Thanks Josh!
I borrowed my copy of The Personal MBA from the King County Library system in keeping with the idea that I'm budgeting my personal education, my DIYMBA, as low cost as possible. I will have to purchase a copy to refer back to because Josh's book is going to be a valuable reference for me in the coming months as I begin to explore various topics that I don't have much working knowledge with. Amazon, here I come!
What's so great about Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA? He provides his readers with exactly what he promised. Outlined in related chapters are distilled insights, laws, rules, anecdotes, examples and guides to help you quickly analyze a situation and make decisions. After reading a few pages in Personal MBA about how to analyze production problems, then synthesize what the solutions might be I instantly realized I had just learned something without any effort. I now have a decision tree of sorts, there's no mystery in my mind about what factors I need to consider when looking at a similar real-life issue.
This book would be an excellent option for someone cutting their teeth in their first management gig, or even someone with a few years under their belt who was likely promoted as a star performer but not given much training on what a "manager" really is. It appears to me that this is a common scenario in today's business world and is the likely cause of high turnover in many companies.
I'm also finding that there is so much chit chat about "Leadership" nowadays that I feel a nearly insurmountable burden of learning awaits my every effort to gain proficiency in these modern "must-have" skill sets that have popped up in pop business culture. As an example yesterday on Twitter I spotted a tweet about Cultural Intelligence. Okay, I thought, this must be a variation on the theme of Emotional Intelligence, and of course we see no shortage of EI reading material on the internet. Is this the new buzzword in pop business lingo on the internet and twitter? Not sure about that but I do know that by following the reading list in Personal MBA I got my hands on a copy of First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. I'm only 75 pages in, and will blog about this great(!) book later, but I already know I need to take this new term, Cultural Intelligence, and distill it down to the essentials, then act from there.
Go get yourself a copy of Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman and watch your confidence, your insight and your ability to act appropriately soar. Thanks Josh!
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