A few days ago, one of my long-time readers, DP, emailed me an really interesting article about a GSB alum from the Class of 1972 and the lessons he learned during his time there. The article, entitled “What they used to teach you at Stanford Business School” (click on the link to see the article), had me thinking back on my own time there and I realized that, even though the professors’ names are different, the lessons are surprisingly consistent with some of my key takeaways. The article made me reflect on my own Top-10 lessons learned blog post from August 2006, but it is much more focused on the actual business concepts than my own list. I have a feeling that some of you will enjoy it.

By the way, I think I might have freaked a few of you out with my recent comments about people sending me long run-on emails with laundry lists of questions. I just received one of the most efficient and to-the-point emails that has come in a while and the author closed it out by saying “Hope this isn’t too long winded”…I felt so guilty after seeing that (BTW, if you’re the one who wrote that email, please know that your email wasn’t long-winded at all). hahahahaha! I don’t want me to be worried that their emails will tick me off and, if I’ve given that impression, please know that that isn’t the case. All I ask is that people be thoughtful about what they send my way and the amount of time it’ll take to address the email. A decent rule of thumb might be to think about the amount of time it takes for you to write the email to me and multiply that by 10 or 15 to get an idea of how long it’ll take me to give a good response. I just pulled those numbers out of thin air, but that actually does sound like a decent estimate of ratio of your time in emailing me to my time in emailing you back. Just think about that and it’ll be all good…