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Street Smarts vs. Book Smarts
Monday, January 3rd, 2011Street Smarts vs Book Smarts: What Does it Take to be Highly Successful in Life
Thursday, November 12th, 2009This is one of the predominant issues success is more important, intelligence or intelligence book on the street? Traditionally, people have grown up with the idea that success means completing his studies, obtaining a diploma, and to find a job that promised a life career.
However, in recent decades have seen the emergence of highly successful companies founded and run by college dropouts. These men and women are still in the news business are examples of how you can succeed in life without a college degree. Not even have to watch the news for companies such people. All around us are not self-millionaires who made their fortune from business initiatives. These people often claim to be self-taught school most difficult of all, the school of hard knocks of life.
So is the key to success in life? What will you do now: the Graduate Business School book smart or self-made, street smart entrepreneur?
Book Smarts tops the list of
In 2008 the Forbes list of 100 richest men in the world, 8 of the 10 richest men graduated with a college degree. Going down the list, only a handful of people who have not obtained a college degree. Many of these billionaires have continued their education in business school or a masters or PhD to get a graduate degree. Obviously, education has been an important tool for initial and continuing success of these people. The implementation of a large multinational company or not is something that comes naturally to many people. However, many of these people will tell you probably learned more about working in the classroom, especially when it comes to managing people and situations in the real world.
Street Smarts make the news
However, only a handful of people actually on the list of inherited family businesses. Certainly not require any education to inherit the money, although it may require some degree of learning to celebrate it. Also, if you look at the people who have not obtained a degree, are names that are immediately familiar. Bill Gates (3 richest) and Paul Allen of Microsoft, Michael Dell of Dell Corporation, and Lawrence Ellison of Oracle are the most important. But beyond his business acumen, charisma and vision, are obviously intelligent people, of course, the quantity of gray matter to know how to pool their talents to go with the idea of a great success .
Keys to success
There seems to be a key to success in life. The academic knowledge and intellectual skills undoubtedly play an important role in the foundation of a successful career. But it also requires vision, charisma, a good work ethic, and not intuition a bit "to get everything together. Success is not just behind a door. It is a different port, and a series of gates, so we need more of a button.