MBA's a bunch of clowns?
Filed in archive MBA programs by mstandaert on February 12, 2005
It seems they are, but we could have told you that already. From Inc.com.
Improv, that domain of theater students, has become the latest discipline taught at the nation's top business schools. The goal: to improve listening skills, speech delivery, and responsiveness. At New York University's Stern School of Business, for example, students study the techniques that underlie professional joke-telling. As part of their coursework, they also don featureless face masks to hone their body language
, and practice dramatic enunciations of words (so "droooopy," not "droopy") to vivify speech patterns.
Improv, that domain of theater students, has become the latest discipline taught at the nation's top business schools. The goal: to improve listening skills, speech delivery, and responsiveness. At New York University's Stern School of Business, for example, students study the techniques that underlie professional joke-telling. As part of their coursework, they also don featureless face masks to hone their body language
, and practice dramatic enunciations of words (so "droooopy," not "droopy") to vivify speech patterns. Permalink: MBA's a bunch of clowns?
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