As a follow up to my previous series of posts on leadership and the soft skills of business (Leadership and the Himilayas — Part I, Leadership — Part II, Leadership Part III, Leadership - Part IV, Primping A Resume With ‘Soft’ Skills) …

Check out the most recent WSJ article, How Stanford is Grooming Next Business Leaders, to learn what top MBA programs are doing to push this issue forward. Impressive stuff, and all a part of its modest $45,921 in tuition/price tag alone, PER YEAR.

But shoot, at that price, everybody coming out of Stanford’s MBA program better be the CEO of a Fortune 500 firm or a US President within 10 years of their graduation, or they need to ask for their money back.

While it will never win me a popularity contest at Cal Poly with a variety of stakeholders, oh, my goodness, the things I could do for you and the program if Cal Poly and the CSU system “belled the cat” and charged, and folks paid, half the going MBA market rate of $40K to generate significant revenue to in turn bury right back into the program …