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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I think that, despite how nice it is to be academically brilliant (and I am not one who can say that I am, unfortunately)...what it takes to make it to the top of corporate america (which I am blessed to say I have accomplished) has nothing at ALL to do with academic smarts.  Zero. Seriously.

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I think you DO need to be smart to make it to the top, but you also need effective communication skills, know how to build relationships and be a leader.

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I think you need to be street smart. To be able to read people, to understand politics and know how to play the game. Perhaps most importantly, I have learned not to use logic to make decisions about how to react to things that happen in corporate day to days, but to use situational behavior knowledge. Most especially, to understand human motivation, and act on that even when everything in you wants to do something completely the opposite.  And absolutely like a PP said, be willing to take huge risks and gamble on your gut instincts and be able to seperate your own personal viewpoints and buy into the company line, and act like you are completely on board. Then go home and feel like crap about it but be able to seperate that from your feelings about yourself and not dwell. You need to understand human motivations enough to know when to speak up, and when to shut up. And the latter is more important. Another hugely helpful trait: to be completely bouyant: meaning, that anything that happens to you in the workplace, you bounce right back up, immediately, without missing a beat.

On top of all of that, you have to be likeable while you're doing it.  To be able to go to a meeting, go to a networking party, go to a conference, a hotel bar, whatever it is, whenever it is--and be likeable.

Zero academic knowledge required. In fact, many of the people at my level I swear are seriously NOT smart academically.

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