Name: The Tiny MBA
Rating: 3.416666666666667 (6 reviews)

Alex  Hillman

The Tiny MBA 

Alex Hillman

You don't need an MBA or fancy investors to succeed in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate your current situation: your advantages, your relationships, your potential choices, and the most likely outcomes. What you really need to know is something that most business people won't say out loud: There is no single right way to do things in business, but there are plenty of avoidable mistakes along the way. The Tiny MBA offers 100 pointed pieces of guidance that will help you begin to think like someone who has started and run their own business for 15 years and intends to keep doing it for a long time. Each page of the book offers ideas and prompts and clues and suggestions and reflections to help you navigate business in ways that most people only learn the hard way. Some pages reference some of my favorite books and articles that you can read to go even deeper. My "back of the book" promise to you: If you dip into this book once every few months (pretty easy since it’s just 30 minutes to read), or even once a year, you’ll find something new to chew on every single time.

100 Very Short Lessons about the Long Game of Business

The Tiny MBA

Sebastian Witowski

I try to give 5-stars reviews only for books that I will definitely go back to. And "Tiny MBA" is one of those books. It consists of small advices/ideas that makes you think. And the ratio of knowledge to the number of words is insanely high. Every page is just a short paragraph or two and I really enjoyed this format. Some ideas are obvious, but a lot if them gave me an "aha" moment. You can read this book in one afternoon, but I will surely go back and reread it again.

Kato

I really liked "Rework", which also packaged (and illustrated) business lessons and learnings into short episodes. Will "The Tiny MBA" be as good and thought-provoking? To keep it short and tiny: No. 

Some of the lessons made perfectly sense in their "tiny" format, but for others I would have liked an example. A handful left me stumped because I literally didn't understand them without context.

This should have been an card game instead of a book. Combine the lessons with thought-provoking questions and this would be an excellent workshop tool.

The Tiny MBA

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