The 12-Week MBA

Who This Book Is For

The ideal reader is a hands-on builder or operator—founder, GM, product or GTM lead—who owns outcomes but lacks a traditional MBA. They’re comfortable with ambiguity, impatient with fluff, and want practical levers they can pull within weeks. They’ve shipped things, manage a small team or P&L, and crave a mental model that connects pricing, unit economics, working capital, and people systems into one value narrative. They appreciate numbers yet know spreadsheets fail without trust, cadence, and dissent. They’re willing to instrument cohorts, run pricing tests, tighten cash conversion, and install decision rituals. They prefer clarity over complexity, ranges over false precision, and “show me the cash” over vanity metrics. They have enough autonomy to reallocate budget or headcount, and enough humility to learn. Most of all, they seek a compact, rigorous playbook they can use to diagnose, prioritize, and execute—turning scattered business concepts into a single operating system for growth.

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