Post #1302759
2026-01-20 16:54 UTC
Replies (16)
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@thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 18:07
As I’ve always said, defund MBAs
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@bagsy@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 19:07
In Japan, engineeing companies are run by the engineers which I think is the better way. Ill never understand why American companies insist on being led by business majors who know nothing and dont care about the product being built.
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@DandomRude@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 19:34
The purpose of business school MBAs is nothing more than networking. These degrees cost a fortune, and that's exactly the point: to bring opportunists together. I'm almost sure it's next to impossible to fail this degree, because it's not about knowledge at all, but merely about gaining entry into senior management.
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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-20 19:03
> What other poor decisions are they making all the time? See also: investment in Theranos. These people are *so* easy to fucking scam with buzzwords and the right "look."
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@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-20 20:04
I mean... its worse than that. Its definitive proof that we live in an anti-meritocratic society, that is ruled by nepotism and violent and dangerous sociopaths. Yes, its violence if it goes through a complex system for the violence to happen, is done indirectly. So yeah, our lives are ruled (and ruined) by utterly incompetent dangerous sociopaths, who will gleefully destroy the entire economy because... they like buzzwords and feeling like they are smart. We either need to kill these people, or they will kill all of us, just give it a decade.
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@Rooster326@programming.dev 2026-01-20 19:30
AI is the new "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". You're either following the crowd or getting replaced by someone who will. Its insane
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@cashsky@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-20 18:06
Welcome to short term shareholder value economy. They will fuck the planet and the working class so that line go up 📈
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@morto@piefed.social 2026-01-20 20:09
Meanwhile, small family-owned businesses struggle so hard financially, but make miracles to stay afloat for decades, taking the most viable long-term decisions, despite the lack of options and resource. And these people often have no formal education in the area, just the survival instinct and the pressure of a family to feed.
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@meco03211@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 18:07
But they can be made to look good *on paper*. That's where it counts. At least for the people being paid to make those bad decisions and obfuscate it with "good" numbers.
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@curiousaur@reddthat.com 2026-01-21 19:11
You are correct. The issue is one of projection. CEOs and MBAs think AI is amazing and can replace everyone because it can replace them. They are the ones replaceable. So they think AI is so amazing and they should use it to replace everyone else. Folks doing actual work with meaningful output absolutely can and should use AI as a force multipyer where applicable, but they know they're meaningful work can't be fully replaced.
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@afk_strats@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 18:19
Broken systems elevate psychopath leaders into positions of wealth and power, and people who want those things exploit the fastest path there by getting degrees who put you on that track. By this MBA logic, do we close CompSci for the the poor code coming out of Microsoft, close Law Schools because social rights are being lost, engineering schoolings because infrastructure doesn't meet current needs? My point is to blame the CEOs and their shitty behaviour, not the schools that, to my knowledge, try to educate reasonable policy, law, ethics, HR, etc. Disclaimer: not an MBA
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@Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-21 05:10
> What other poor decisions are they making all the time? Not resigning.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-01-21 05:10
they run it like a PE firm.
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@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 21:22
Any bad decision that's made by an exec is usually just met with nods and grins by the workers while they do what's actually necessary and try only half heartedly to follow their edicts. Execs usually have no idea what a pilot program is and every decision they make is pure gold so why not roll it out to everybody at once.
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@scarabic@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 00:53
One factor here is that they are all under pressure from their boards and investors not to miss the AI wave and get left behind. All companies are doing some level of AI theater. Some actually believe it. But it’s not like hundreds of CEOs all came to this judgment purely on their own, with no outside influences. It’s a mass craze.
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@Strider@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 08:28
Especially when being one of dual training, IT and business, it's **so** obvious there's a lot of bullshit.