These articles are based on decades of Silicon Valley and multinational management experience. I figured sharing some of the basics of management would be useful. Plus I like to write. So here goes. I publish a growing number of articles about management, finance, and related topics on my substack, https://valleyops.substack.com/ (it's free)
From the first article:
"Although most reasonably capable people pick up a lot of business-school knowledge organically during their careers (whether you run your own mom-and-pop, or you do the startup thing, or you work for a large company or at a university or in the public sector), that doesn’t mean it would not be better if you knew some of the things people normally learn in business school before you discover the gaps in your knowledge the hard way."
The core curriculum of a U.S. MBA program is typically designed to give managers a common foundation in how organizations create value, financially, operationally, strategically, and behaviorally. It answers how firms measure performance (accounting), allocate capital (finance), compete and generate revenue (economics, marketing, strategy), and execute through people and processes (operations, organizational behavior, perhaps some useful things about people and performance management). In addition, they cover topics like decision making under uncertainty, data science and analytics, technology strategy, entrepreneurship, sustainability, business ethics and corporate governance, global business, and behavioral economics.
There are plenty of resources to learn any and all of these. Almost all of this you can find online, if you know where to look or what to ask. And, to once more quote myself, "many of them are useful, either as reminders or crystallizations of stuff you already sort of knew or as clever nuggets or insights. They are like cookbooks; they don’t make you a good cook, but you can get ideas by reading them. Treat my future writings as such."
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