This article should be called "4 things you WILL LEARN in a business school."
Communication, networking, adaptation, and follow-up/through have been central tenets of my business education. Having seen both sides of the coin (I have a CS degree and I'm halfway through an MBA), I have to say, this is a very typical and incorrect attitude towards to business education.
There are a lot of skills required in business (sales, marketing, leadership, etc), but if you had to boil all of it down to one skillset, IMO it would be good judgment and sound decision-making.
Because of that, all else being equal, I'll take a strong poker or bridge player over an Ivy League MBA any day.
"It is therefore better to communicate too much than too little."
I can't disagree strongly enough about this. When you're on a team greater than 2 or 3 people, using hyper-communication like this suggests would consume the majority of your time. Instead of, you know, getting shit done.
It's not the quantity of communication that's important as much as the quality of the information being communicated.
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Communication, networking, adaptation, and follow-up/through have been central tenets of my business education. Having seen both sides of the coin (I have a CS degree and I'm halfway through an MBA), I have to say, this is a very typical and incorrect attitude towards to business education.
There are a lot of skills required in business (sales, marketing, leadership, etc), but if you had to boil all of it down to one skillset, IMO it would be good judgment and sound decision-making.
Because of that, all else being equal, I'll take a strong poker or bridge player over an Ivy League MBA any day.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
I can't disagree strongly enough about this. When you're on a team greater than 2 or 3 people, using hyper-communication like this suggests would consume the majority of your time. Instead of, you know, getting shit done.
It's not the quantity of communication that's important as much as the quality of the information being communicated.