The first year is hell. So what! You are learning, but how about getting
your laundry done, getting a date or making enough money not to get evicted?
You need a survival guide. Fortunately, there are a few...
Survival Guides and Resources
- RPI MBA Survival
Guide
- Sloan
MBA Survival Guide
- The SkyDeck from Stanford.
Survival Skills
Managing Your Life
- The Brand Called You
- Article from Fast Company by Tom Peters. Peters argues
that your most important act is self-creation.
Each of us, says Peters, should imagine ourselves as a
brand, The Brand Called You. As the CEO of Me Inc., its up to each of us
to create our own distinctive market positioning to figure out
what we do that adds value, what were learning that keeps us ahead of the
competition and to invent a message and marketing strategy that
communicates those attributes to the rest of the world.
- Articles from
FranklinCovey Priorities Magazine.
- The author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has
teamed up to provide a set of motivating and touching articles about
ourselves and our business lives.
- Time Management Resources
- Learned Optimism
Meeting People
- The
Fine Art of Networking
- By Tim Opler, Ohio State University.
- How to Hit Home Runs with Networking Contacts
- From Careers.WSJ.Com
Working on the Computer
- Netiquette Text
- Think of this as Miss Manners for the Internet...
- Composing Good HTML
- Beginner's HTML Template
- how to write on the
computer
Analyzing Cases
- Case
Analysis Techniques
- Multidisciplinary Exercise in
Teambuilding
- From NYU. Read the Project Prep Guide under administrative instructions.
- How to
Solve Problems
- Odyssey of the Mind
- MindTools
- Problem-Solving Handout
- How to Improve Your Problem Solving
Processes
Reference Tools
- My Virtual Reference Desk
- Accurate Eye's Reference Desk
- 411 - look up email addresses and phone
numbers.
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
- Roget's
Thesaurus
- Webster's Hypertext
Dictionary
- Glossary
of Financial Terms
- How to Find an email address
Achieving Academic Excellences
- Gain GPA
- While aimed at a non-MBA audience, this site is full of useful
advice on everything from how to plan your time on tests to study skills
that really matter.
- On being a good
student
- Look in the mirror... You will be good. You will be good...
Personal Skills
- TalkWorks
- Basic communication and listening skills are probably the single most important
determinant of success in the corporate world. This is a great web site to go through and
learn from.
- Viruses of the Mind
Speaking and Presenting
- Online Presentation Help
- Neat site
- Effective
Presentations
- Visual Presentation
Assistant
- Practical help if you have a presentation coming up!
- Speech writing resources and tutorials
- Includes an automatic wedding speechwriter!
- Business
Communication Resources
- A Basic Presentations Course Online
- Resources for
Rhetoric and Composition
Getting Creative
- The Art
of Being Smart
- by Cathy Ryan, Ohio State University.
- ThinkSmart
- And don't forget their Brain Wakeups
and Library full
of articles on creativity
- How
to Brainstorm
- Jamming
- The art and discipline of business creativity.
- Ten Steps for Boosting
Your Creativity
- A few of these sound like they'd be perfect for you!
Writing
- Business
Communications Course
- Inkspot
- Grammar Queen
- Writing an Argumentative Essay
- Strunk's
The Elements of Style
- More writing
resources
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