RE: CCIE and MBA

I am one of those folks who did this very thing; I achieve my CCIE (R&S) in
December 2004 after three years of working at it and five attempts at the
lab. No question that the CCIE is designed to create technical depth, I
have worked with many complex environments and large customers in which that
level of knowledge was essential.

In mid-2005 I started considering what I wanted to do long term and was
enamored of the idea of eventually becoming a CIO and enrolled in an MBA
program. Needless to say I became well-versed on the business side of
things and glad I went that route. There is a real correspondence between
the CCIE for technical expertise and the MBA for business expertise. It
comes as no surprise to me that I excel in a sales engineer type of role and
that my educational path strongly supports that.

Just my thoughts on the journey...I have been in this career field for 10+
years now...

Joe Rinehart
MBA, CCIE #14256, CCNP/DP/VP
President, Seattle Cisco Users Group
joe.rinehart_at_seacug.com
www.seacug.com

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Shahnawaz Khot
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 01:57
To: Cisco certification
Subject: CCIE and MBA

Hello experts,

How would you feel a CCIE going for MBA? Does it help in anyway?

Cheers !

Shahnawaz

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Received on Tue Sep 08 2009 - 13:09:45 ART