Ten Things to Learn This School Year

Friday, November 10th, 2006 in Technology Bites

Guy Kawasaki, one-time Macintosh evangelist, lists Ten Things to Learn This School Year (actually, twelve of them):

  1. How to talk to your boss
  2. How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run
  3. How to run a meeting
  4. How to figure out anything on your own
  5. How to negotiate
  6. How to have a conversation
  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

If you’re in school now — or if you’re not — it’s worth reading the whole post.

Some meat thinks. Some doesn’t. This is what one chunk of meat has on its mind.

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November 10th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Not_Z

The real world, if your boss is Steve Jobs? Yikes!!

There’s some real bullshit in this list, but that’s nothing new from the Mac evangelista. The world has embraced the Mac. Well, it’s embraced the iPod anyway. Close enough for the shittake master,

Believe it or not, but in the real world, those who can do, do. Those who can’t do, share with others who can’t do.

Is that male pheromones that I whiff? I think it is.

second, focus on what you want to accomplish in the meeting and ignore everything else. Once you get what you want, take yourself “out of your body,” sit back, and enjoy the show.

Translation: Be the smartest guy in the room. Guy is. Wouldn’t YOU want to be Guy?

How do you update the calendar in a Motorola Q phone with appointments stored in Now-Up-To-Date? (I’ll send a copy of The Art of the Start to the first person with a good answer.)

Translation: I don’t want to look it up myself, and it’s driving me crazy that my neighbor figured it out. And I’ll throw one of these useless books that I have stacked in boxes throughout my mansion. I have plenty lying around and it don’t cost me squat.

The rest of them are actually pretty good advice.

November 10th, 2006 at 8:37 pm

meatbrain

You’re a cynic, Not_Z. But that’s okay… the world needs cynics.

As someone who has been in the corporate world in one capacity or another for about twenty-five years, I found most of Kawasaki’s advice to be spot on. And my time spent in answering technical questions for computer users has given me a great respect for those who take the time to figure things out for themselves.

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