It's Harder than Ever to Be a Senior Executive
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. Technical and functional knowledge are vital to making good judgment calls, being legitimate in the eyes of your people, and making resource allocation decisions. And for many people they're harder to learn.
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