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July 22, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Career Crisis

Jim Collins Just Described the Career Crisis You Are Living Through Right Now

Jim Collins released his most personal book yesterday. After a decade of research studying 34 remarkable lives across every field imaginable, the bestselling author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t has turned his legendary research methodology toward something most business books are afraid to touch directly. Not company performance. Not leadership theory. The actual question of what happens to a person when everything they built their identity around stops working. The book is called What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative. And if you have an MBA, you

July 22, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Building Your AI-Efficient Company: A Strategic Playbook to Implement

When I founded the MBA Standards Board, I knew I was stepping into something big. But I underestimated just how big until I realized we needed to fundamentally reimagine how our organization operated. That’s when I decided to commit to deep learning about AI implementation, not just understanding it conceptually, but really getting my hands dirty with the mechanics of how AI first organizations operate. Over the next few years, I took over twenty specialized AI courses, and a mini AI MBA. They covered everything from AI strategy and organizational change management to practical implementation of AI frameworks and responsible

July 22, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

2026 MBA Skills In High Demand

Top 2026 MBA Skills Recruiters Search for and How to Make Them Find You

Remodel Your LinkedIn Profile: Think of your LinkedIn profile as a building. It has a foundation in your education and experience. It has a facade in your headline and photo. And it has interior rooms in your About section, Skills list, and Featured content. Too many MBA professionals leave their building half-constructed and then wonder why recruiters walk right past it. That changes now. LinkedIn’s own data, two major global employer surveys, and a wave of HR intelligence research published in 2025 and 2026 tell us precisely which skills hiring managers and recruiters are typing into their search bars when

July 22, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Board Certified Director

Remodel Your Governance Footprint: Verified Board Service Credential in 2026 & How to Build a Career That Leads to a Paid Seat or the C-Suite

Quick Summary – The Board Certified Director™ is a verified digital badge credential issued by the MBA Standards Board for professionals who have completed six or more months of active board service. It is registered in the Credential Engine Registry under the CTDL open data standard and embeds ten governance skill terms into LinkedIn’s recruiter search database. Median compensation for Fortune 500 board directors reached $335,000 in 2025. The credential is designed for both board-seeking professionals and those pursuing C-suite advancement. Two pathways exist: pro bono board service as the entry track, and compensated corporate board service as the advanced

July 21, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

AI Chief of Staff

My AI Chief of Staff Turned Me Into a SuperCEO. Yours Can Too.

Marcus asked me recently how I stay on top of everything. Honest answer: I don’t do it alone anymore. Every morning at my desk, before I touch my inbox or look at my calendar, I sit down with Claude. My AI Chief of Staff. This has been the daily routine for a while now and I can’t imagine running the MBA Standards Board without it. What I didn’t know when I started was that I was building something that has a name. A model. A way of working that serious operators are starting to call being a SuperCEO. Last week

July 21, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Skills Phishing

Skill Phishing Is Costing Employers Millions. Verified Credentials Are the Cure

There is a new term making its way through the HR community, and if you work in talent acquisition, lead a team, or are currently in the job market, you need to understand it. Skill phishing. The Society for Human Resource Management recently spotlighted it. Trent Cotton raised it on The Human Capitalist Podcast with guest Charlotte Melkert, CEO of game-based hiring platform Equalture. The concept is not complicated, but its consequences are enormous. Skill phishing is the act of presenting polished skills, credentials, or capabilities during a hiring process that do not translate into real-world job execution.¹ In plain

July 21, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

CEO of Your Career

Becoming the CEO of Your Career: The Hard Truth About Who Is Really in Charge

Your Career Is Invisible Without Verified Skills | CEO, MBA Standards Board | Certified MBA™ | Board Certified Director™ | AI Strategy for Executives | Future of Work | MBA Education Nobody handed Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos a job. Both built one. Both from a garage. With ideas, and a plan that most people thought were absurd. What separated them from the thousands of equally smart people who watched Apple and Amazon grow from the outside was not intelligence. It was accountability. Both treated their careers like a business they owned, not a position that someone else managed for

July 20, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Your Expertise Is Invisible to AI.

The most important career shift of this decade is not about learning new skills. It is about whether the systems now making the first decisions about your career can find you at all. Most cannot. That is not a metaphor. It is a technical fact, and it is reshaping who gets hired, who gets appointed, and who gets cited as an expert, faster than most professionals realize. Quick Summary The Email That Arrived in My Inbox This Week A strategist named Adam Houlahan sent me a note that stopped me cold. He wrote: “4.5 weeks. That’s the approximate half-life of

July 20, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Governance Matters

Why Governance Matters & Who Decides What an MBA Means in the Age of AI

Anyone can issue a badge. I want to say that again because it matters more today than it ever has. In 2026, any individual, any website, any platform can create a digital credential, attach a logo to it, and place it in someone’s LinkedIn profile. No standards are required. No verification is required. No accountability is required. The result is a professional landscape where credential fraud is accelerating faster than the systems designed to catch it. According to Greenhouse’s 2026 AI Hiring Report, 91% of recruiters and hiring managers have spotted or suspected candidate deception, and 74% say they are