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How to Change the World: Ten Things to Learn This School Year
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force yourself to learn how to figure out just about anything on your own
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How to negotiate.
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Prepare for the negotiation by knowing your facts;
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Figure out what you really want;
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Figure out what you don’t care about;
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Figure out what the other party really wants
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Create a win-win outcome to ensure that everyone is happy.
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How to have a conversation.
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listen more than you talk
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How to explain something in thirty seconds.
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Think
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three words
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Think ahead, not on your feet.
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How to write a one-page report.
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The best reports in the real world are one page or less.
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How to write a five-sentence email.
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the optimal length of an email message is five sentences.
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explain who you are, what you want, why you should get it, and when you need it by
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How to get along with co-workers
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the higher you rise in an organization, the less important your individual accomplishments are
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Share the credit with others because a rising tide floats all boats.
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How to use PowerPoint.
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limit yourself to ten slides, twenty minutes, and a thirty-point font—assuming that you want to get what you want
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How to leave a voicemail.
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think of a voicemail as an oral version of a compelling five-sentence email; the optimal length of a voicemail is fifteen seconds.
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slowly say your telephone number once at the beginning
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always make progress.
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Comments
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text-based PowerPoint presentations suck. Period. I reserve Keynote only for showing images to my students.
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study what you love
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pursue the type of work that you love to do and the $$ will follow.
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On running meetings - it is often a good idea to be very specific about the kind of meeting, whether it be a) decision making, b) informational, c) input, d) brainstorming
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pushing students to think for themselves is risky. With such huge and growing emphasis on student evaluations, teaching has become a popularity contest - an assistant professor that focuses more on what's good for students than on what they enjoy may not get tenure.
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less is more in terms of elevator pitches. We took a page from Andy Warhol's book and decided to cut it down to 15 Seconds.
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I'm currently studying Systems Engineering in a Peruvian university
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My father once told me, though, that the best thing that college teaches us is to be able, like you mention, to figure out things on our own.
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The ones who keep their jobs and rise to the top are the ones who suck up
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They're not the ones who send short e-mails and leave concise voice mails.
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unless you have motivated employees, all these tips are useless.
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Do I want employees like you describe?
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yes. Much easier for me to deal with. Would I promote one of those employees? Probably not, I like what they're doing, and I don't want them doing anything else because they do what they do so well. Do I want to be one of those employees? No, it's depressing and rarely leads anywhere
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Posted by:
Paul |
Aug 22, 2006 1:48:19 PM -
I'd add another thing to the list...
How to get to the core issue fast
I think it's important not only to be able to explain something in 30 seconds, but also to be able to understand something really quickly.
For example, while you are in the elevator with your boss who does not have enough time, and has to explain something to you in 30 seconds. If he's not good at it, you may be left wondering what you're supposed to do or what he was talking about. A lot of people get lost in details. So I think that being able to ask the right questions that get you what you need to know fast is very important also.
Because, as you said, your time is really precious.
Posted by:
Dragos Ilinca
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Aug 22, 2006 10:00:29 AM
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While I agree that all of those things are important to learn, I think that college is the wrong place to learn them.
One of the problems we have with "college education" is that they've become "technical schools". The ("original) idea of a university education is to (in order) 1) teach the cultural history (language, arts, history, the traditional "liberal arts" stuff) and then 2) learn how to learn, learn how to think, learn how to debate, learn how to write (many of which were covered in your great list).
Too many kids go to college seeing it as "job training", when they should be seeing it as the time to learn about all the great things in the world and to learn how to reason. Because so much emphasis is put on the "job" side, we miss the, what I think, is the more important and what will be more useful in the long term. You may not have the same job in the same field for your entire life. Being "educated" means that you can move as the world and you change.
So...yes, those are all things that should be learned, but not necessarily in college.