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The Personal MBA — Josh Kaufman’s Mental Models for Business
A dense practitioner synthesis of Josh Kaufman’s The Personal MBA (10th anniversary mental models)—why not B-school, then all 11 chapters from Value Creation through Improving Systems, with definitions, tables, and consulting/product when-to-use notes.
AI Playbook2026-07-3036 min readintroductory
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A dense practitioner synthesis of Josh Kaufman’s The Personal MBA (10th anniversary mental models)—why not B-school, then all 11 chapters from Value Creation through Improving Systems, with definitions, tables, and consulting/product when-to-use notes.
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