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	Warren Buffett says words fail MBA

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3-12-2009 10:01 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9cd6f8c7-43f3-47bb-888a-3b76ed01e92e/F3300CE0-8A28-4EB4-A001-78EBE5E950CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/05/20/warren-buffett-says-words-fail-mbas/" href="http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/05/20/warren-buffett-says-words-fail-mbas/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.ft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/05/20/warren-buffett-says-words-fail-mbas/"><H3 class="entry_header smalltoppad">Warren Buffett says words fail MBAs</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/05/20/warren-buffett-says-words-fail-mbas/"><P>Mr Buffett was, however, prepared to put flesh on the bones of his recent criticism of business schools, arguing that, as well as teaching the basics of how to value companies and understand markets, they should include classes in basic written and spoken communication.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/05/20/warren-buffett-says-words-fail-mbas/"><P>“Almost all the students I meet could benefit from working on these two [skills],” he said. However, they were not emphasised in business school teaching because “to some extent they were beneath the self-image of faculty”.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ft.com/management/2008/05/20/warren-buffett-says-words-fail-mbas/"><P>For the student, learning how to speak and write more effectively would yield benefits far in excess of those gained from the study of esoteric financial tools, he argued. “You show me the person who can communicate well… they can have an enormous impact and they will jump out of the pack in terms of hiring later on.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F3300CE0-8A28-4EB4-A001-78EBE5E950CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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