The Kmiec Ramblings

This is just wonderful. If not for the insane price, I would seriously consider purchasing these.

David Armano put together a great presentation that says everything that’s in my head better than I could. I’d embed it here, but Slideshare doesn’t seem to like Wordpress. Oh well. You can view it here.

It was a great video…but it was pulled by the original author.

Great write up of the video’s content can be found here.

I can’t believe it. I seriously can’t believe it. Should be here, by end of week. I don’t feel too empty on the inside though since I’ll be installing Vista on it

I was just watching a commerical for the Women’s NCAA Tournament on ESPN. One of the coaches in the commercial said, “All Good Things Come From Pressure.” I completely agree. I firmly believe that pressure brings out the very best and the very worst in people. With pressure, people will choose to either rise to the occasion or wilt and fail. Personally, I’d like to think I rise to the occasion and meet the pressure head on. My favorite part of a project is the last few days. Everyone is running around freaking out, questioning how we’ll launch “X” on time, and pushing themselves to go beyond the what they thought was there best.

In the face of pressure and adversity you’ll find out who your leaders are. To me it’s a comforting fact.

If you haven’t checked out Hulu yet, you should. The navigation is simple, the quality great, and in my opinion the commercials minimal.

The knuckle ball always amazes me. That a ball can travel like a wounded duck is just something else. Gotta love physics.

I mean how the hell do they keep making GREAT content. Every freaking episode is fantastic and just never dissapoints. This latest one about Britney Spears is just perfect.

I love job posts. I love how silly we are with the requirements we ask for. I love how we think we know what we want in an employee. I love how we claim that relevant work experience is valuable yet we REALLY care about someone’s education experience. Why do we think that having an MBA makes you a better and/or more valuable employee? I have NO idea why we do that.

The majority of MBA holders that I’ve come across are no better, and in fact usually worse, than their non-MBA competitors. Let me sketch out two candidates that I’ve come across:

John
4 year degree in Marketing
2 year MBA in Management
3 years of “work” experience

Jim
4 year degree in Marketing
5 years of “work” experience

Given those two choices, I’d choose Jim 90% of the time. I’m not biased. Quite the contrary. I want the best person, period. As I look at the type of people I like working with; they’re doers. They make it happen. They can react quickly. They can turn on a dime. They’re bright, sharp, and have a fast moving mind. These are all things that generally don’t fit the traditional MBA mold. The MBA mold is methodical, theory based, data driven, square minded, and is unable to move/think/act quickly.

As a matter of fact, FedEx captured the MBA mold so well here:

Now, let’s do this…throw out everything I wrote above. Assume it’s complete and utter bull shit. Let’s agree on one thing: you, him, her, me; we ALL want the best candidate. If we can agree on that; which I think we can, then why do say “Bachelor’s degree required; MBA strongly preferred?”

Think about it.