"By 2030 70% of the skills used in most jobs will change, with AI emerging as a catalyst. The good news? Professionals are not standing in place and are working to keep pace. We've seen a 140% increase in the pace at which LinkedIn members add new s…
"So the big issue is the tactics. Once you get into complex goal-driven behaviors the tactics of habit formation that the scientists have studied, they just don't apply, they don't work. But that's why there's a new habit book every year and people …
"Constraints breed excuses. Limit constraints to what is essential, keeping them clear, concise, and minimal. Encourage people to move freely within these boundaries. Confident in their distributed authority" - Andrew Hobday In this week's…
"Every workplace is going to be a little bit annoying all the time. That is a baseline level of acceptance. Some organizations are really annoying, but it's for a small period of time... The challenge is when you have a high level of intensity of em…
It's the end of 2024 and this is usually the time we get to review what have we learned and what have we achieved. This week, I want to focus on doing a recap of key lessons learned through the podcast this year. Artificial Intelligenc…
“Interpersonal skills have always been important in working successfully in groups within organizations, but these findings indicate they will continue to be important—perhaps even more important—in the electronically connected fut…
“Attributes also don't direct our behavior. They inform our behavior. They tell us how we're going to show up to an environment. So for example, my son's levels of perseverance and resilience inform the way he showed up when he was learning th…
Hope you are having a good beginning of the month. This month Hardcore Soft Skills podcast turns 4 years old, so its a great time to start a new season of the podcast with a new episode next week. In case you have not noticed, I have made some updat…
"When people are trying to be dominant, they will, they will take up important resources. Okay. So the important resources around us are things like time, volume, not only volume of voice, but volume of space, how much space they take, how much volu…
"Giving feedback is worthless. It's actually not quite worthless. It's worth something for the person who gives it. But study after study shows that basically giving someone else feedback has very minute impact in their behavior. What you want is a …
'A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.' – Simon SinekNo matter if you work on-site or remote, and regardless of your role, you probably are a member of a team. Do you consider yo…
I received exciting news late last week. My 3 courses on "soft" skills developed in partnership with the production company Madecraft are all available now via various providers. In each course I put together a collection of my experience, re…
When you think about how can we be more productive. It's really about being more present with what you're doing, because you can hit a golf ball better. You can cook spaghetti better. You can tuck your kids into bed better. There's a lot of th…
It has been a few weeks since I emailed you but I was on a little break. Well, not really, as summer has involved a lot of driving kids to camp, working with various tech teams launching new initiatives, speaking at conference, and finishing my last…
One of the things I say to clients is communicate your best. So when you go into a room, ... one of the tricks I suggest is think of a favorite person in your life, whether it's a grandparent or a mentor, or perhaps you had a horrible life and you d…
Traditional managers often don't want to hear bad news and people often get punished as the messenger or if you've made a mistake. By its definition, a lean leader wants to hear about these problems and they want to have a bias for action and solve …
We are in an age of acceleration. Everything is accelerating. Every graph you look at these days looks like things are bumping along, bumping along, bumping along, and t…
"We believe that you do need to get together to build social bonds. Our belief, though, is that you don’t need to get together every single day to sit next to each other on a Zoom call in an office and commute back and forth to get that benefi…
By: Yadi Caro Last week I wrapped up my time supporting a very important military organization, where I was tasked with introducing agility to the IT department. I enjoyed this job a lot! I had to put into practice all of the sk…
If hearing the expression “let’s have a meeting” makes you cringe, you are not alone. I do love meetings though, but I love the GOOD ones. The ones where everyone gets to participate and collaborate. Those rare occasions when …
"When you think about how do we be more productive, it's really about being more present with what you're doing. Because you can hit a golf ball better. You can cook spaghetti better. You can you can tuck your kids into bed better. There's a l…
By: Yadi Caro “To be successful in writing, use short sentences” - Ernest Hemingway People tweet (or do we call it X'ed now?), write photo captions and are constantly communicating through the written word, but these mess…
I am a huge fan of agile! Agile is an organizational approach to managing software which was conceived 23 years ago by a group of software developers as an alternative to deliver products faster and adapt to change quickly.Instead of taki…
By: Yadi Caro Dealing with conflict between co-workers and managers costs companies about $359 billion per year or at least 3 hours a week per each worker. Bad team communications cost companies at least US12k a year. On the other han…
