The MBA eyes

A word of warning to all parents who plan to rear their kids into money-minting MBAs. Don't blame the selfish world if your grown-up kids try to reorganise your family into a team-based organization; or refer to all those hours you spent taking care of him in his nappy days as 'sunk cost'. Not all that glitters is gold, or platinum, as per popular choice. Some (read: many) of the things that an MBA learn is useful tomfoolery; weapons to destroy the common-sense understanding of the common man with unnecessarily intertwined play with jargons meant to confuse people through long tautologic statements such as this one.

Citing as an example, here's a simple rendition of MBA knowledge by a premier company Fedex:

An obvious hyperbole, the above advertisement is a TVC, made for the purpose of enhancing the brand awareness and highlighting the value of simplicity offered by the global company (there went a string of unncessary jargons). Simply put, this was a humourous TV ad to show how simple and friendly Fedex is.

As opposed to the above commercial, MBAs are not dumb. Oh no, they're not. Most of them (atleast in the Indian subcontinent) undergo tough entrance examinations and multiple screening rounds and then get accepted by certified BSchools to undergo the specialised form of torture. So, it is a harmless assumption that MBAs are definitely not stupid. What makes them offer 'holistic' views is mostly an effect of all the branding strategy and core competency analysis learnt over the months. Sprinkle this with some generous amount of booze and partayyy, and what comes out is a full grown Master of Business Administration.

Be careful what you do with an MBA friend.  If you see movies like Race for pure fun, chances are high that you shall be made to feel like an underdog till your peers find a hotter topic. If you sit with your MBA buddy to see a couple of music videos, you might as well get this:

If you still don't know who Munni and Sheela are, go dive into the puddle of water and drown, poor soul!

Standing too close to the MBA step, I should care not to write more about this topic, lest I mar my chances of self-selling.

Salutating thus, 

A.K.

So many things a marketeer has to worry about. Phew...workload... :P