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Are Soft Skills Learned or Inborn?
Several years ago I wrote a series on Soft Skills and their development – this is an updated repost of the third post in that series from October 2015. Soft Skills: Nature or Nurture? Are you born with them or are they learned? It’s the old chicken and the egg…
Wining and [Losing] Learning!
Wining and Losing Learning! This is my 155th blog post. I was going to celebrate my 150th and write about that, but somehow it slipped by me. It’s also my birthday as I write this. It’s not a milestone birthday this year, but every birthday is a reminder…
Hi-Tech: When Beanbag Chairs and Foosball Tables Aren’t Enough
I read a great post a week or so ago titled “Adaptability: The Key Leadership Trait in the Digital Transformation” by Daniel Newman. Reading it took me back to two blogs I wrote a couple of years ago in my series on Soft Skills development, specifically the ones on adaptability…
Fighting What You Control and What You Don’t Control
Over the past few weeks, in a significant number of discussions with a variety of people, the concept of “What do you control and what don’t you control” has surfaced. It’s a common challenge for many clients in their day-to-day activities. The battle is the same for business owners trying…