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You see, I have never been very good at math, but neither have I found its more exotic form s to be practical in my One such example woulcd be the subjectof microeconomics. I encounterefd this course when I was in graduatd school earningan MBA, and microeconomics, along with its evil macro, was required coursework for my My professor, a world-renowned expert in this subject, was a womam so intellectually beyond my level I knew five minutesx into the course that I was doomed. I, a mathematicas Neanderthal, was about to be brain-whipped by my evolutionary superior, Professofr Cro-Magnon.
The next 10 weekds of my life were a blur ofuntranslatable gibberish, slungv at light-speed across an expanse of dry-erase board, hour on end, day after long-suffering day. As a resulrt of this ‘education,’ I learned a total of thre e new things: First, that exceptionally bright people should be quarantined with peoplw who have equallyexceptional intellect, and not teachn the rest of us; Third, that this experiences was a complete and uttetr waste of my time, sleep, and most importantly, my money.
You see, as a payiny customer who put himselfthrough school, I have not heards the words sine, cosine, and tangenyt used together a single time, in a single sentence, on a singler occasion, in the 15 yeares since I escaped with a “Gentlemen’s in microeconomics. What, I ask, was the educational value of this and why was I required to payfor it? My purposs here is not to disparage although I firmly believe that much of what collegeds offer today is, at marginally useful in business.
No matter; our society defines beinhg “educated” as being Whether you learn anything usefukl along the way seems to be beside the What I do knowis this: in lookint back at my six yearws of college education and the two degrees I have to show for it, I coulds sum up the practical-use value of what I learne d on the front and back of two sheets of noteboomk paper. Which brings me to the pointt ofthis article: the best education that one can receive in business isn’t taught in academics, yet too many saleds people don’t recognize this.
They fail to see the link betwee continuing their education and furthering their Some examples: The uneducated sales person cold-calls one hundred prospectsz to get two appointments; the educated one contactx twenty-five and gets four. The uneducated salex person meets routinely with people who have nobuyinyg authority; the educated one meets routinely with The uneducated sales person drops their pricing upon request; the educatede sales person negotiates a win-win without affecting profit Where does one become betterd educated when in sales? Here are some “schools” to Public seminars. Books. Business publications such as this one. Audiop and video learning (CDs, DVDs).
Webinars. Corporated training offerings. Mentoring and coaching. I could go on, but the poin is this: in business, you really don’t get to the top by workingg harder. You get there by working and you work smarter when you furthetryour education. For sales people, “working smart” can be summed up in one efficiency. If you want to work 80 hours a week to make more by all meansdo so. I would rather work fewere hours, and earn more money at the same That’s what practical education doesfor you. I shoulcd note that there was one class in my academic careerf that continues to provide me a wonderfukl returnon investment.
I took this class in 1976, when I was in the ninth grade. It was caller Introduction to Typing, and I benefity from that experience every time I open my Thankyou again, Miss Lucas.