I heard Guy Kawasaki speak at the ASAE "Great Ideas" conference last month in Colorado Springs.
He did an interview recently with the New York Times.
Good points he makes:
They should teach students how to communicate in five-sentence e-mails and with 10-slide PowerPoint presentations.
If they just taught every student that, American business would be much better off.
The issue with consulting is that if you go straight to work for a consultant, you develop this perspective that the hard part is the analysis and the decision.
In reality, that’s not the hard part.
The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.
You can develop an absolutely incorrect perception of yourself as a great manager when, in fact, you haven’t implemented anything.
All you’ve done is make spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
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