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Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?

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non-routine savants

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analytical reasoning

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we start with data

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communication skills

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a willingness to experiment

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non-routine solutions

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a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don't like it.

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team players

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work well together and perform up to the team's expectations

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passion and leadership

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motivated by a sense of importance about what you do

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The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities.

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It's easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel.

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And then keep on challenging yourself, because learning doesn't end with graduation. In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market. Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.

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learning doesn't end with graduation.

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And then keep on challenging yourself, because learning doesn't end with graduation. In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market. Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.

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learning doesn't end with graduation.

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Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.

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