DIARY OF A RECOVERING MBA
WORK.
AMBITION.
POWERPOINT.
And the quiet realization that you’re not the problem.
Lynne Everatt – Toronto
Stories about the strange logic of corporate life—and what happens when you start to see it clearly.
You were told success
would feel better than this.
— You believed them. So did I. —
For years, I worked inside the system—learning how it operates, how it speaks, how it justifies itself.
Eventually, I started to notice something. The language didn’t quite match reality. The rituals felt rehearsed. The logic… questionable.
Now I write about what actually happens inside ambition—the theatre, the small compromises, the big delusions.
You could call it the perspective of a Recovering MBA.
A Corporate
Lifer Recovers
For many years, I looked like a textbook corporate success story. MBA. Strategic forecasting role at a multinational pharmaceutical company. A sensible career trajectory mapped neatly out in front of me. Then one day a colleague casually described me as a “lifer.”
He didn’t mean it as an insult. But the word landed like a straight-line forecast to nowhere that I didn’t want to come true.
Read More →A WRITING SAMPLER
From the Diary of a Recovering MBA
Start here. A few recent observations plucked from the business headlines and reimagined.
A TINY BITE
A CEO attempts to appear human while eating a hamburger. The camera tells another story.
Enhancing Our Culture of Travelscrimping
Where cost control meets budget hotel reality.
A TRANSPARENT FAILURE
An athleisure product works exactly as designed. Unfortunately.
READY TO STOP PRETENDING THE DECK MATTERS?