톰 피터스 10
so I'm going to give you a piece of practical advice which, of course, is part of the reason you come here.
Never ever, ever for the rest of your working life hire someone who had a grade point average of 4.0
Ever! What is the definition of 4.0? Buys the act!
Has been coloring within the lines since the age of five.
Now, I don't want a 2.0 because that means you're either lazy or stupid or both.
But at least give me, say I mean, you know, 3.5 is okay because that says at least he was screwing around a little bit.
I mean, 4.0 says this person does not screw around.
Tom Jefferson, Al Hamilton and George Washington, they were screwin' around.
This was a little dinky-doo, dippy country, and they said, let's go after this George dude.
Now, that was not smart.
If George and Alex and Tommy the Jeff had 4.0 grade point averages, they would not have started that revolution.
The second thing I will do upon election as your president
Is I will issue an edict immediately
to close all business schools.
If there is ever a tragic waste of time in a human being's time-- and I got one of these suckers. It's called the MBA.
What did we say on that slide a minute ago?
It is the age of creation intensification, right?
Design Management Institute's magazine about two summers ago
did an analysis of the top 15 business school programs in the United States.
Design as a core course--zero.
Creativity as a core course-- zero.
Innovation as a core coarse-- zero.
That is pathetic. Sick.
But I will say this, at least there's a good reason.
One dean was quoted as saying, The reason we don't teach that stuff is it's really hard.'