The 12 Week MBA: Essential Management Skills for Leaders

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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. These core skills, such as 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 global 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.

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Bjorn Billhardt is CEO of Abilitie. Prior to launching Abilitie in 2015, Bjorn founded and bootstrapped Enspire Learning, Inc., an e-learning development company. Bjorn also worked as a corporate trainer for BAAN, a Dutch software company, and McKinsey & Company, a strategic management consulting firm. Bjorn holds a BA from the University of Texas and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A native of Hamburg, Germany, he lives in Austin, Texas.

Nathan Kracklauer is Chief Research Officer at Abilitie. Previously at Enspire Learning, he was the principal author on courses for organizations such Harvard Business School and the World Bank. Nathan has facilitated leadership seminars at organizations such as Bank of America, GE, Nokia, and at executive education programs at IMD Business School, London Business School, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Nathan lives in Karlsruhe, Germany and is a native of Falls Church, VA, having worked in several cities across the US, Germany, and Finland.

Abilitie is a virtual leadership development company with a database of 10,000+ leaders. Their brands combined have over 2,000 LinkedIn and 1500 Instagram followers. Their Learn To Lead podcast has featured prominent e-learning industry luminaries such as Elliott Masie and Karl Kapp, director of Bloomberg's Institute for Interactive Technology, and authors Rita Gunther McGrath and Jonah Berger. They also host an ongoing webinar series and host free interactive Play Sessions, which provide additional platforms to promote the book.