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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

There is little that machines, robots, and software-based AI won’t be able to do in the future – apart from feeling and acting in a human and emotionally intelligent way. “Our so-called “soft skills” are what make us human. Awesome, isn’t it?

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Do Not Underestimate the Importance of Non-Technical Skills

LSA Global

But, even more importantly, they need to have the non-technical skills – the so called emotional intelligence and soft skills in order to effectively collaborate with others in a way that makes the whole greater than its parts. In other words, you need the soft skills in order to leverage the hard skills.

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Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers

Harvard Business

When we went back to our data, the skills that our analysis identified as making a great manager are much more other -focused: Being open to feedback and personal change. A key skill for new managers is the willingness to ask for and act on feedback from others. This is a requirement for effective managers.

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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business

The number-one attribute CEOs look for in their incoming workforce (according to an IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries and 60 countries) is not discipline, integrity, intelligence, or emotional intelligence. It’s creativity. And for that, you need highly creative employees. .”