Leadership, Business
Date Published: March 13, 2026
Why do confident people keep getting promoted over competent ones?
Why does modern leadership often look like meetings, buzzwords, and no real decisions?
M.B.A. is a sharp, satirical business book that examines the uncomfortable realities of modern education, leadership, and corporate culture. With dry humor and analytical clarity, it challenges the myths surrounding higher education, management, teamwork, and “hard work,” revealing why so many smart, capable professionals feel stuck despite doing everything they were told would lead to success.
This book explores why credentials don’t equal competence, why confidence is often mistaken for leadership, and why organizations reward appearance over results. It breaks down how flawed systems—not a lack of talent—create inefficiency, burnout, and poor leadership across companies, institutions, and workplaces. Rather than offering motivational clichés or productivity hacks, it provides a clear-eyed explanation of how professional life actually functions in today’s economy.
Written for professionals, managers, MBA candidates, and anyone questioning the value of modern business culture, M.B.A. exposes the gap between titles and ability, education and outcomes, and leadership language versus leadership behavior. It explains why teams frequently slow down high performers, why clarity feels threatening in organizations, and why real competence often goes unnoticed.
This is not a self-help book. It’s not a business manifesto. And it’s not another guide filled with inspirational quoquoteI
It’s a calm, unsentimental critique of the systems that shape education, leadership, and work—and a guide to understanding them without buying into the illusions they sell.
If you’re tired of corporate buzzwords, skeptical of MBA hype, frustrated by ineffective leadership, or curious why the modern workplace rewards the wrong behaviors, this book will give you the language and clarity to finally make sense of it.
About the Author
Drew Christensen is an entrepreneur and corporate leader who has spent years inside large organizations observing how confidence, credentials, and presentation often outperform competence. His writing blends satire with clear-eyed analysis, exploring the quiet absurdities of modern business, leadership, and professional life.
Influenced by the idea to “give rise to mind while abiding nowhere,” his work resists rigid frameworks, fashionable doctrines, and credential-driven certainty in favor of independent thinking and practical judgment.
He lives in the United States with his wife and a total of fifteen animals, depending on how generously one defines the term. This includes three dogs, two cats, two in-laws, one dog-in-law, and four cats-in-law. The remaining three animals reject the premise outright and insist on being classified as “children.”
Masters of the Bullshitting Arts is his second
