Personal Mba
Use when the user asks about business strategy, marketing, sales, finance, management, leadership, pricing, productivity, decision-making, systems analysis, process improvement, or starting/running/growing a business. Loads 270 structured business concepts from Josh Kaufman's The Personal MBA.
Install
npx skills add misterfesk/personal-mba-agent-skill --skill personal-mbagit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/misterfesk/personal-mba-agent-skill.git /tmp/personal-mba-agent-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/personal-mba-agent-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/personal-mbaPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Personal MBA Skill ## Overview This skill provides your agent with **270 structured business concepts** extracted from Josh Kaufman's *The Personal MBA* (https://personalmba.com/). Each concept is a standalone JSON file containing the core definition, underlying mechanism, concrete examples, diagnostic questions, and cross-references to related concepts. The knowledge spans 11 domains: Value Creation, Marketing, Sales, Value Delivery, Finance, The Human Mind, Working With Yourself, Working With Others, Understanding Systems, Analyzing Systems, and Improving Systems. **This is a reference tool, not the book itself.** For the complete education, users should purchase *The Personal MBA* from https://personalmba.com/#buy. ## When to Use Load this skill when the user asks about any of the following: - **Business strategy & analysis:** "analyze my business", "what's wrong with my company", "competitive analysis" - **Marketing:** "how to get customers", "marketing strategy", "positioning" - **Sales:** "how to sell more", "pricing", "negotiation" - **Finance:** "profit margin", "cash flow", "pricing model", "financial health" - **Management & leadership:** "team issues", "how to manage", "leadership" - **Productivity & decisions:** "how to be more productive", "decision framework", "prioritization" - **Systems & processes:** "improve operations", "optimize workflow", "system analysis" - **Mental models:** any request to apply or explain business concepts
Details
- Skill name
personal-mba- Repository
- misterfesk/personal-mba-agent-skill
- Repo updated
- 23 June 2026
FAQ
What does the Personal Mba skill do?
Use when the user asks about business strategy, marketing, sales, finance, management, leadership, pricing, productivity, decision-making, systems analysis, process improvement, or starting/running/growing a business. Loads 270 structured business concepts from Josh Kaufman's The Personal MBA.
How do I install the Personal Mba skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add misterfesk/personal-mba-agent-skill --skill personal-mba. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Personal Mba popular?
It lives in misterfesk/personal-mba-agent-skill, which has 6 GitHub stars and 0 forks.
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