The most valuable thought I took away from hearing Michael
speak; is that the liberal arts studies are applicable to being successful in
the business world. Michael said
that when companies are looking for employees, what they are looking for are
people who can think entrepreneurially.
These people are those who can create goals, evoke emotion, and use
their minds to get through unexpected situations. The most valuable people are those who can see the big
picture and make the connections.
Michael said that most businesses are not started by business
majors. He talked about how the
best ideas are ones that see the future by looking for what people need. Travelocity
was his example. They utilized the
web as a place to buy travel tickets, but as a result, many ticket sellers lost
their jobs.
He went on to talk about how in the twenty-first century you
are competing with people from all over the world because people can work from
anywhere now. This statement makes
me nervous. I am not amazing at
one particular thing; I know there are many people who do better than me in
school and other fields. How can
you find that specialty that you really excel at? I think there are some exceptions
to this statement. There are still
jobs that require one-on-one human interaction that cannot happen over a
computer. I really liked how he
described business as being the most creative thing you can do because it is
the art of people. Business is
about solving people’s problems and bringing them together in new ways. He told us to do something that we
really love. I am all for that and
know that being at a job for money will not make me happy, my question is how
to find that job that I love doing.
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