What Budding Entrepreneurs Should Really Learn in School
Guy Kawasaki notes the following as some of the things he wished he had learned before he left graduate school:
"1. How to talk to your boss. In college, you’re supposed to bring problems to your teachers during office hours...[but in the real world] your role is to provide answers, not questions...
2. How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run...vow to yourself that someday you’ll start a company, and your meetings won’t work like this.
3. How to run a meeting...understand that the primary purpose of a business meeting is to make a decision...
4. How to figure out anything on your own...
5. How to negotiate...
6. How to have a conversation. Generally, 'Whassup?' doesn’t work in the real world...
7. How to explain something in thirty seconds...
8. How to write a one-page report...
9. How to write a five-sentence email...
10. How to get along with co-workers...
11. How to use PowerPoint...
12. How to leave a voicemail... Two power tips: First, slowly say your telephone number once at the beginning of your message and again at the end...Second (and this applies to email too), always make progress...
One last thing: the purpose of going to school is not to prepare for working but to prepare for living...there is much more to life than work, so study what you love."
Read more in this post from Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki
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