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The Visual MBA

Jason Barron · Business

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Takeaways

Two years of MBA notes, drawn. Not deep, but the best map of the business world I have found — perfect for an engineer who wants the vocabulary.

What It Covers

  1. accounting
  2. finance
  3. marketing
  4. strategy
  5. operations
  6. leadership
Each chapter is a set of sketchnotes — skim once, then come back when you need a concept.

Concepts I Actually Use Now

  • Reading a balance sheet and income statement without panicking.
  • Time value of money / NPV — why a rupee today beats a rupee next year.
  • Porter's Five Forces for thinking about why a market is (un)profitable.
  • Marketing mix and positioning — useful even when pitching an internal tool.

Great companion to Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things — those give opinions, this gives the vocabulary to follow them.