渣打银行CEO Bill Winters 近日表示，他认为MBA学位是“浪费时间”，自己所学的人文社科知识，如国际关系和历史，在当今时代更具价值。他认为，随着人工智能的兴起，批判性思维和有效沟通等软技能变得比技术技能更为重要。Winters 在接受采访时分享了他的职业发展经验，并强调了好奇心和同理心的重要性。他认为，了解受众需求并提前预判，对于在职场中取得成功至关重要。

🤔 渣打银行CEO Bill Winters 拥有国际关系和历史学士学位，以及沃顿商学院的MBA学位。他认为，与MBA相比，大学期间所学的人文社科知识更有价值。

💡 Winters 认为，随着人工智能的发展，技术技能的重要性下降，而批判性思维和沟通等软技能变得更为重要。他强调了好奇心和同理心的重要性，并建议提前了解和预判受众需求。

💼 Winters 在摩根大通开启职业生涯，在该公司工作26年，最终成为投资银行的联席CEO。2011年，他创立了自己的私人信贷基金，并在2015年出任渣打银行CEO。

Bill Winters started his career at JPMorgan and is the CEO of Standard Chartered.The Wharton alumnus said going to business school was "a waste of time."Winters said the soft skills he learned from majoring in the humanities are more relevant now.

Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered, said the MBA he received from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School wasn't the best use of his time.

Winters was speaking to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua in an interview that aired Tuesday when he was asked about the advice he would give to a teenager on what to study.

"I studied international relations and history. I got an MBA later, but that was a waste of time," Winters said of his own education.

A representative for Standard Chartered said the firm had no further comments on Winters' remarks. Wharton did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Winters graduated from Colgate University in 1983 with an international relations degree. He graduated from Wharton with an MBA in 1988.

"I learned how to think at university, and for the 40 years since I left university, those skills have been degraded, degraded, degraded. They're coming back now," Winters said.

The CEO said that with the rise of AI, learning how to think and communicate effectively matters more in the workplace.

"The technical skills are being provided by the machine, or by very competent people in other parts of the world who have really nailed the technical skills at a relatively low cost," Winters said.

"I'm going to go back to curiosity and empathy. Really, really understand the audience that you're dealing with and anticipate those needs beforehand," he added.

Winters started his banking career at JPMorgan. He spent 26 years there, rising to become co-CEO of JPMorgan's investment bank. Winters was seen as a potential successor to JPMorgan's CEO, Jamie Dimon, but was ousted by Dimon in 2009.

He founded his own private credit fund in 2011 before taking the helm of Standard Chartered in 2015.

Winters isn't the only business executive who thinks that soft skills will become more important in the age of AI.

Salesforce's chief futures office told BI last month that empathy is the most important skill in the AI era.

"Parents ask me what should my kids study, shall they be coders? I said, 'learn how to work with others,'" said Peter Schwartz.