Career Progression

With MBA, your visibility will surge along with your responsibilities.  Since you will be networking with more high-ranking influential people, maybe with the CEO, your contributions will not only be evaluated by your immediate manager but also by executives. Especially if you find a sponsor within the company and get his or her support on various occasions, you might benefit going up in the career ladder sooner than you calculated. This is only internal. You have much more to gain from your external dealings i.e. Interactions with stakeholder and other company leaders. Maybe you end up being a Professional who advises C-Level executives. If this is the case you already associated with a CXO. Guess what happens when this CXO plans to hire a new Director to his new business unit? Or let’s say you end up being an Account Executive for a key client of yours. Talking to the customers directly, you will most likely know what is going on in your market before anybody else in your company including your boss. What will be the trending technologies or new processes or emerging companies in near future? You would have better insight before everybody else, well that’s not that bad as it sounds and you can plan your future accordingly and shift domains as per the market standards.