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Top 7 Things They Do Not Teach You in MBA School
Often when I give speeches at MBA schools I am flabbergasted by some of the questions that I get from the students. It is often as if the students have no concept of reality and that is very scary for a potential employer. It is even more scary to think that they are being taught by a professor who has never actually been in business but only studied the theory and written textbooks on how to do something that he has never succeeded at.Nevertheless this is the case at many MBA schools. Not all are like this of course, many other top MBA instructors have been in business and come back to teach. But the superstars of business are still in business and they have no time to teach.ding the long weekend at home. Resting some on Labor Day Monday, we worked diligently on Saturday finishing up the basement (“The Dugout”); pulling weeds and shaping up our garden; catching up on art projects; and taking long bike rides through the mountainous terrain of Ridgefield and New York State.

It was after one of these long and glorious bike rides that my husband announced we were going to our neighborhood family restaurant, Dimitri’s, for a late lunch. For those of you living up here, you know Dimitri’s. We all know Dimitri’s. They just celebrated their ten year anniversary yesterday by inviting the entire town over for a party! It’s the best family diner in town. Very low-key. Very very casual. One of the owners is Greek; the other is Guatemalan. Most of the servers are from Mexico or South America…and we’re on a first-name basis with almost all of them. When they come to take our order, I always tell them I’d like”the usual,” and most of them know what I mean (its Cajun-grilled chicken Caesar salad with the best homemade dressing on the planet.) Going to Dimitri’s is not a big deal per se, although it’s something we look forward to every Sun

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It was after one of these long and glorious bike rides that my husband announced we were going to our neighborhood family restaurant, Dimitri’s, for a late lunch. For those of you living up here, you know Dimitri’s. We all know Dimitri’s. They just celebrated their ten year anniversary yesterday by inviting the entire town over for a party! It’s the best family diner in town. Very low-key. Very very casual. One of the owners is Greek; the other is Guatemalan. Most of the servers are from Mexico or South America…and we’re on a first-name basis with almost all of them. When they come to take our order, I always tell them I’d like”the usual,” and most of them know what I mean (its Cajun-grilled chicken Caesar salad with the best homemade dressing on the planet.) Going to Dimitri’s is not a big deal per se, although it’s something we look forward to every Sun

versary yesterday by inviting the entire town over for a party! It’s the best family diner in town. Very low-key. Very very casual. One of the owners is Greek; the other is Guatemalan. Most of the servers are from Mexico or South America…and we’re on a first-name basis with almost all of them. When they come to take our order, I always tell them I’d like”the usual,” and most of them know what I mean (its Cajun-grilled chicken Caesar salad with the best homemade dressing on the planet.) Going to Dimitri’s is not a big deal per se, although it’s something we look forward to every Sun When they come to take our order, I always tell them I’d like”the usual,” and most of them know what I mean (its Cajun-grilled chicken Caesar salad with the best homemade dressing on the planet.) Going to Dimitri’s is not a big deal per se, although it’s something we look forward to every Sunday after church. Both the diner’s budget, as well as our own family’s, has a line item for the Fernandez’ Sunday lunch at Dimitri’s.

So it caught me as quite a surprise when Nick, our seventeen-year-old, looked at me, fresh from my hour-long-bike ride, and told me I was not going to Dimitri’s looking “like that.” I looked him in the eye—rather incredulous—and then looked at myself, starting at my waist and moving down to my shoes. I thought I looked rather, well, cute. I had adorable little hot pink athletic shorts on, which make my chubby thighs look kinda muscular; my navy blue polo shirt peeked out from under my favorite grey sweatshirt, which some would call “ratty,” but to me, it was more of a Ralph Lauren-meets-Lance Armstrong-meets Martha Stewart kind of a look. On top of that, I had on my brand-new hydro-engineered tech shoes, fabulous for mountain-biking as well as for hiking the rain forests of Costa Rica, for crying out loud! I was no frumpy biker!

But Nick silently looked at me looking at myself and then met my eyes again with a single “No. “

Then Cristina, our twelve-year-old-going-on-thirty-two, bounced down the stairs and l