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Career Advice

Leadership Edge: Your Soft Skills Set You Apart

In my career, I’ve often seen technical expertise — what we call “hard skills” — acclaimed as the cornerstone of professional success. While this is true to a degree, I’ve learned that it’s not enough. The ability to navigate complex challenges, influence stakeholders, and inspire teams requires something more: soft skills. Skills like effective communication, […]

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Strategy

Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy, only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world. In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless […]

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Frameworks

The Priority Matrix: Staying on track with tasks

One of the biggest mistakes project managers and founders make is chasing every feature customers suggest. Customer understanding is key to good product design. We often rush out to gather feedback, returning with endless lists of “must-have” features. However, these features aren’t always what customers need — they’re just what they think they want. Acting […]