&gt; For what&#x27;s it&#x27;s worth nearly all the excellent executives I&#x27;ve met over the years didn&#x27;t have an MBA and nearly all the worst ones did...
I sort of draw a comparison between that and something I heard the director of a local accelerator say once: &quot;We look for founders who are open to taking advice from mentors, but at the same time, don&#x27;t take everything everyone says to them as gospel.&quot; 
I think there&#x27;s something similar to an MBA program. The people who do best are the ones who are able to take what they&#x27;ve learned and run with it, rather than use exactly what was taught in school as  playbook for every business.