Never underestimate the ability of an MBA to focus on exactly the wrong ways to increase profits and to instead get on jargon-filled hype trains (the jargon is catnip for them when trying to justify their own existence). Sure they do also go on power trips and inevitably discipline labor, but they spend 90% of their energy talking about promoting “growth” (they can’t define it) and becoming an “industry leader” (they can’t define that either) with the worst powerpoint presentation you’ve ever seen forced on a captive audience. Most important is to always promote a mentality of us (management) vs them (workers) so that everyone in management sees their own interests as aligned with yours in some way.
Never underestimate the ability of an MBA to focus on exactly the wrong ways to increase profits and to instead get on jargon-filled hype trains (the jargon is catnip for them when trying to justify their own existence). Sure they do also go on power trips and inevitably discipline labor, but they spend 90% of their energy talking about promoting “growth” (they can’t define it) and becoming an “industry leader” (they can’t define that either) with the worst powerpoint presentation you’ve ever seen forced on a captive audience. Most important is to always promote a mentality of us (management) vs them (workers) so that everyone in management sees their own interests as aligned with yours in some way.
Anyways I hate MBAs.