Business is not an academic exam. That you topped your class is partly irrelevant in the marketplace since exams we face in markets (fixing customer frictions) are totally different from the ones our professors challenge us with in classrooms. What that means is this: your academic professor may not be a good business mentor or coach unless he also participates in the business world.
For me, mentoring & coaching works. TED (the popular conference where you pay $10,000 just to listen to talks over 3 days) paid and assigned coaches to me over 18 months as a TED Fellow. The World Economic Forum also made available CEOs of SAP, etc, opening the space to write them directly; WEF honoured me as a Young Global Leader and opened their massive database, making it possible to connect with any leader in the world! I was working with colleagues in Carnegie Mellon University to set up CMU Africa in Rwanda.
The guy who wrote the “Richest Man in Babylon” was clear – you win when the best can guide you. What that means is simple: mentoring & coaching works when done efficiently. This evening at Tekedia Mini-MBA Live, I will explain how to make that work! Join us
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