I say “liberal arts and/or tech person”, but I fit in to the “and” side of the slash.
I find myself at the point in my career as a tech person with a liberal arts background that where my previous lack of need for basic business fundamentals has become a… liability.
My History degree required plenty of macroeconomics. I can understand the broad outlines of monetary and tax policy, I have a vague notion of how the stock market works, and I dig the general positives and negatives of various economic systems.
However, until recently, I had no idea what the difference between a capital and operating lease is. I find myself a bit lost in the day-to-day financial details that come from being a manager at a small business with a couple hundred thousand to budget every quarter.
I’m planning on starting at a local MIS program in the fall, and will probably hit the business courses pretty hard before I bother with the tech classes, but can anybody recommend a resource for me in the mean time?
I’m not exactly floundering - I’ve got a good handle on the leadership and project management side - but I need to get a basic grasp of the general business stuff so I don’t come off as a total propeller beanie in the management meetings.