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Based on The 12-Week MBA by Abilitie, a business leadership program taught to professionals at global Fortune 500 companies, The 12-Week MBA offers practical tips for managers and aspiring business leaders.
 
Getting an MBA takes time and money, making it inaccessible to many people who want to take charge in the business world.  Now The 12-Week MBA  offers an alternative way to learn business essentials, focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as a manager and business leader.
 
The 12-Week MBA’s unique premise is that there is a core set of business skills that entrepreneurs and future leaders of organizations can learn and will need regardless of their industry, function, or level.  Those core skills—value creation, people skills, and decision-making—can be learned in less time and at lower cost than in a traditional two-year MBA, where the typical content becomes obsolete by the time students have graduated.

Authors Bjorn Billhardt and Nathan Kracklauer, leaders of Abilitie, a leadership development provider, have customized and honed their virtual 12-week MBA course over the last 20 years.  Now they bring you the key lessons from this curriculum in an accessible, engaging guide. 
 

Praise

“An excellent read for people considering entering management and leadership positions and a great refresher for those who have been there." —Scott Collins, PhD, CEO of Austin Innovation Group
"An essential guide to practical business leadership that covers both the 'numbers' and the 'people' side of running a business."  —Alex Davern, former CEO, National Instruments
The 12-Week MBA is transformational—it helped me lead the largest transaction in my company’s history.” —Martin Jones, Head of Studios, Austin Film Society
The 12-Week MBA is an invaluable guide, providing the essential business acumen needed to confidently navigate the corporate world.”  —Roberta Pomponio, Customer Success Manager, GoGuardian
"The 12-Week MBA offers small, bite-sized insights essential to business covering both financial leadership and people leadership." —Ketan Patel, Senior Corporate Counsel, Envision Healthcare
The 12 Week MBA encapsulates 2-3 years of graduate level courses into easily digestible chapters anyone can understand.” —Dave Bush, Engineer, Apple
“The12-Week MBA distills an expensive degree into enduring leadership insights for a world that desperately needs a more diverse range of leaders.” —Christine Looser, PhD, Senior Director, Minerva
"The 12-Week MBA provides an introduction to the key quantitative and people-centered knowledge and skills that lie at the heart of successful strategic thinking." —Art Markman, Vice Provost, The University of Texas at Austin; author of Bring Your Brain to Work
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