Fake qualification claims cost a top hotelier his high position and a within-reach promotion. He apparently attended classes at both top universities but did not graduate from them.
I’m definitely not defending his wrongdoing of lying, but simply wonder if the lack of ivy-league formal academic achievement should undermine his years of proven credentials in the hotel industry? Everyone, including the MBA graduates, would agree that success is attributed by many qualities not necessarily acquired by paying high school fees.
It might sound strange coming from a MBA hopeful. Because dishonesty is no way a virtue for top management personnel responsible for the business empire, in which thousands of employees’ and shareholders’ interests are at stake. A MBA graduate, having worked hard for his golden plated qualification, would not approve of a free rider.
Some people might still question, if this hotelier, like many other successful people without a MBA training, such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, have achieved success, then why are people crushing through the narrow gates in pursuit of a MBA??
With the countless number of self-help guide books claiming to reveal the secrets of MBA training or teach the contents of a MBA course, why pay through our nose and sacrifice 1-2 years of income-earning precious time?
To these arguments, perhaps it is because while we (perhaps) attempt to be the next one-in-billions Steve Jobs or Bill Gate, a quality MBA admission is a useful testimonial of our potentials (hopefully). By surviving the stiff competition and intense trainings, we demonstrate our competency to manage challenges.
We might not be the crème de la crème, but we are working to get better.
1 comment:
I think you hit the answer on the third line of yr 1st paragraph. It matters not that the man had acheived much since lying about the qualifications. The head of a company earns the place by merit but is there as a point of trust and integrity. By proving to have not warrant trust and lack integrity through lying to get a job there, the position becomes untenable. The same was run through recently with the Dean at MIT, and the action (28 years later) was the same.
It is harsh but important that such action is taken. Otherwise a whole area where certain mistruths that would have been material are overlooked purely because time has passed. It is the same individual who enacted the fraud (which it is), and they will rue the fact they did.
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