As I was browsing through my Flipboard magazines, this particular story caught my attention:
Happiness Traps - Why Your Job Isn’t Making You Happier.
Interesting I thought and its habitual that I would only see the author and/or the organisation after reading an article. Ha! Before I could ROTFL, my mind almost seized and thought, wait a minute. This piece of shit was churned out by Harvard Business Review, and its owned by none other than 'the' Harvard Business School (HBS). I don't think I need to explain who or what HBS is.
HBS is rated the second best business school by Forbes
Founded in 1908, Harvard is one of the most prestigious business schools in the world. Harvard emphasizes the case method in the classroom, and students all over the planet study cases written by Harvard faculty. HBS offers dual degrees with several Harvard schools, including the law school, medical school and Kennedy School of Government. The list of Harvard alums includes some of the most powerful people in America: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Michael Bloomberg, billionaire former mayor of New York City; Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric; George W. Bush, former U.S. president; Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots; and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO.
According to Wiki:
In 2017, HBS was tied for 1st by U.S. News & World Report, No. 1 in the U.S. by Bloomberg Businessweek[21] and 4th in the world by the Financial Times.
The school belongs to the M7 group of elite MBA programs which recognize each other as peers, consisting of Chicago Booth, Columbia, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Stanford and Wharton.
Wow! If you're a businessman, or a corporate sleuth, how could you not succeed if you're a Harvard MBA alumni?
Now, where am I going with this?
Can't you see?
Harvard is telling you dopey failures that if you're not happy working with any company, or big successful corporations, its all your own fault! You have fallen into the "happiness traps"
Multiple factors account for this contemporary malaise. The American Psychological Association found early in 2017 that Americans are reporting more stress than ever owing to politics, the speed of change, and uncertainty in the world. But it’s not always outside forces that push us over the happiness line. Sometimes we do it to ourselves. Throughout my 30-year career advising leaders of major businesses, governments, and NGOs around the globe, I’ve discovered that far too many of us fall into common “happiness traps”—destructive mindsets and ways of working that keep us stuck, unhappy, and ultimately less successful. Three of the most common happiness traps—ambition, doing what’s expected of us, and working too hard—seem productive on the surface but are harmful when taken to the extreme.
The three happiness traps are:
a. The Ambition Trap
If coupled with a single-minded focus on winning, ambition gets us into trouble.
b. The “Should” Trap
Aww no!...you need to read this to see the crap!
c. The Overwork Trap
Overwork can slow down our brains and compromise our emotional intelligence.
The over glorified MBA was once the most oversold piece of paper, a mad paper chase by most graduates in the 90's and what it is basically is just a crappy "How to be a General Manager" post-graduate program.
Elon Musk sums it very aptly .
"I wouldn't recommend an MBA. I'd say no MBA needed. An MBA is a bad idea. [...] It teaches people all sorts of wrong things. [...] They don't teach people to think in MBA schools. And the top MBA schools are the worst. Because they actually teach people that you must be special, and it causes people to close down their feedback loop and not rigorously examine when they are wrong. [...] I hire people in spite of an MBA, not because of one. If you look at the senior managers of my companies, you'll see very few MBAs there." http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201311/profiles.cfm
I concur with Mr. Musk :)
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