The ridiculously formal way MBAs learn the casual art of conversation

This actually looks like a good way to scope out some topics for a presentation or a conference, maybe even as the main things you want to have conversations about with other people at a party, especially under the glut of information in our society.

Anyone smart would see right through someone who tried this. I would think them a bore, and would move on to find more interesting conversation at the earliest opportunity.

Better to read Dale Carnegie than follow this. The quality I find most attractive is the ability to listen. If you are waiting for your opportunity to speak, you are definitely not listening.

I like it!