MFA is the New MBA

This is an article that is over a year old from the Harvard Business Review but is still highly relevant and good news for every creative-type. The article proposes that the American economy has reached a point where teachable skills (even some skills MBAs learn and posses) can always be outsourced to places like India. Therefore an American looking for a job must be able to differentiate their skills and provide something that is truly unique and cannot be learned from a book. This key point of differentiation is creative solutions; unique creative solutions cannot be taught and therefore cannot be outsourced. Dr. Victoria Johnson, the professor for my executive studies class summed up the importance of this situation best when she said, "...innovation is the only true creator of wealth in a post modern society." Creatives = innovation and therefore creatives = the potential for wealth.