Truth is, the great value in most MBA and JD pro­grams can be boiled down to 5 to 10 talks, pre­sen­ta­tions, classes and con­ver­sa­tions that changed the way you expe­ri­enced the world.

Fol­low­ing up on this com­ment, Jonathan Fields presents The Seven Keynote MBA: seven keynote speeches, from a diverse group of peo­ple, that together Fields believes will pro­vide you as much real-world advice as an MBA.

The talks (videos, length in parentheses):

  1. Guy Kawasaki, TiECon 2006: The Art of the Start (39:46)
  2. Mal­colm Glad­well, TED 2004: What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce (18:16)
  3. Gary Vayn­er­chuck, Web 2.0 Expo NY: Build­ing Per­sonal Brand Within the Social Media Land­scape (15:27)
  4. Annie Leonard: The Story of Stuff (21:16)
  5. Jimmy Val­vano, 1993 ESPY Awards: Arthur Ashe Courage and Human­i­tar­ian Award accep­tance speech (9:59) (tran­script)
  6. Seth Godin, TED 2009: The Tribes We Lead (17:24)
  7. Tony Hsieh, Web 2.0 Sum­mit 08: Build­ing a Brand that Mat­ters (16:46)

via @evbogue