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The Secret Phrase Top Innovators Use

Harvard Business Review

That opened the creative floodgates and, over the next few hours, Basadur says, there were hundreds of ideas generated for possible refreshment bars — with the team eventually converging around a theme of finding refreshment at the seacoast. And out of that came a coastal-blue and white striped bar named (what else?)

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

Copyright 2010. That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge. That’s why year after year executives rank “people skills” at the top of their wish lists when hiring people. There's nothing "soft" about people skills. Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D., Building Personal Strength.

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