The Personal Mba: Master The Art Of Business

Getting an MBA is an expensive choice—one almost impossible to justify regardless of the economy. Even elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that focus more on PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than on real business skills. You can achieve better results and save hundreds of thousands of dollars by skipping business school altogether.

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to expensive and ineffective business education. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands to the best business books and powerful concepts. This book combines essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, and systems design, distilling valuable lessons into simple mental models applicable to real-world challenges.

The Personal MBA explains that true leaders are self-made, acquiring knowledge, skills, and experience to succeed independently of formal business education. This book encapsulates principles that typically take a lifetime of trial and error for most professionals to master.