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Probably more like 50%. I got an MBA and pretty much realized I had very little interest in actually being a manager.



I think there’s a lot of ‘teachings’ in those books, but the applying and reflecting it is the ‘10%’.

I also did an MBA, but my incentive was mainly for the technical skills. Ive been lucky in that I’ve always worked in high performing and highly experienced teams within my industry (th cybers), so the need to ‘manage’ people is somewhat moot, but it did teach me a lot about managing and influencing and coaching other less experienced (or unprofessional) teams and stakeholders.




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