Thoughts on taking the altMBA

I recently finished taking the altMBA, described as “ an intensive, 4-week online workshop designed by Seth Godin for high-performing individuals who want to level up and lead. “

Intensive is a great word to use. Throughout the four weeks, you work through 13 separate writing prompts. They ask us not to reveal the nature of the prompts, but they are around things such as goal setting, decision making, sales, and much more. They’re quite thought-provoking.

I estimate I spent about 35 hours a week working through this, so adding 140 hours of work to my month made for quite an intense experience.

Groups are gold

Throughout the process, you work with a variety of groups. At least in our case, things broke into three levels:

1. Everyone in altMBA class 46, which was around 120 people.
2. Everyone in my cohort, which was around 20 people.
3. My “Learning Group” for the week, which was 3–5 people out of those 20, changing each week (with some duplicates in later weeks).

You get to know your 20 people very well, and you also get to know many of the others when interacting in various settings.

During each week you’d go through three of the writing prompts with your team, in three fazes: