Soft skills are dead long live skills

Get the Full StoryWhy retiring a no-longer-helpful label is crucial to making better hiring choices.

Here s a little thought exercise: Suppose Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Stanford Research Center all got together to find out what exactly made a person successful at work. Suppose they discovered that we had two complementary skill sets. One accounted for about 15 of one s ability to succeed at work, and the other accounted for the remaining 85 . Which skill set would be deemed more important?

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