Chapter 13

‘Just start walking’

A blueprint for lifelong learning

The most sublime act is to set another before you. If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. Folly is the cloke of knavery.

William Blake (from ‘The Marriage of Heaven or Hell’)

In a nutshell

Business consultants sometimes think management academics overcomplicate the world. Academics think consultants oversimplify it. This leaves you, the practitioner, in the middle, needing to get on with your job but also aware that there are limits to your abilities and knowledge. How do you make sense of it all? In MBA Day by Day my aim has been to present an informed and selective overview of the content and thinking you would find at a business school and to suggest ...

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