16 Most Important Soft Skills For Success

From the time we wake up to the time we sleep, we’re surrounded by people. Whether you’re an extrovert or an introvert, whether you like it or not, you have to interact with people. That’s when soft skills come into the picture.  Soft skills are personal attributes that enable a person to interact effectively with others. I’ve worked under and together with managers over the past 20 years. While “hard skills” are crucial for execution, management is impossible—and unpredictable—without the right soft skills in place. We have promoted less skilled people to management roles if that’s what it takes to… Continue Reading

Leaders and Responsibility

The Power of Alignment After my WordSesh talk about Code Architecture yesterday, Chris Lema gave a business talk on "The Power of Alignment". It's a great talk about the expectations people and business organizations have, and why relationships don't work out all the time due to miscommunication and false expectations, or misalignment as Chris defines it during his talk. Is Life Fair? A similar idea was covered in another post called "The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness". The author reveals the misconceptions of most people and their expectations of the real life. The… Continue Reading