@swirlie Thanks: How much do you charge for speaking at a university convocation venue?
Funny you should ask, J.R.! 💵
I am often invited as a guest speaker at business venues specifically targeting entrepreneurial young business women who are either in the process of starting their own business, or have been operating their own corporate enterprise from the basement of their home as a one-woman circus act.
There is absolutely no college or university course that a male or female student can take that will teach them how to start their own business, even if their business venture is a lemonade stand at the end of their parent's driveway.
This is because university business degrees and dedicated business colleges anywhere in the world including the USA, DO NOT teach their students how to start and operate a business from scratch.
What those learning institutions teach however, is HOW to become a good employee for some guy who owns the corporate business!
A business Degree therefore, teaches generalized specifics about corporate functioning, but does not ever teach you how to start a business yourself!
You can get your Masters in Business Administration and all you will know in the end when you're handed your Degree during convocation, is how to be an effective business administrator in the corporate world. In other words, you are now qualified to be a highly sought-after employee who holds an MBA as credential to one's ability to learn new things.
But a Masters or a PhD in business will never teach you 'how' to start that same corporate business that you're applying for employment at, which will successfully end with one being awarded the job from a long list of other MBA applicants, leaving you sitting in that 4x6 office cubicle from 9 to 5 with his or her MBA neatly framed and hanging on one of those 3 movable walls for everyone to see who walks past your cubicle behind you!
The woman or guy who started that business whom you went to university to get a Degree for to apply for the hourly wage job offered in their corporate office, doesn't likely even have their own office in that same building!
In fact, the corporate owner of that enterprise is likely sitting on her yacht using mobile satellite internet to conduct online business meetings with all those MBA's who occupy her office space in some expensive downtown location.
The objective is to own the business and become a great EMPLOYER to worthy employees, not to work for an hourly wage to become a great employee to a worthy EMPLOYER.
Lesson #2 is, do not waste your money on buying yourself an MBA because if you're using what your MBA taught you, then you my friend are micro-managing your own corporate business and it will fail. Therefore, one does not need a business degree to start and run their own corporate business, in fact it would be better if they held no university degree at all.
