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AI-Proof Skills
May 9, 2025

AI-Proof Skills

"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…
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The Only Constant is....
May 9, 2025

The Only Constant is....

"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 …
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Psychology and Agility
May 9, 2025

Psychology and Agility

"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…
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How to Love the Job You Have
March 12, 2025

How to Love the Job You Have

"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…
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End of Year Recap
Dec. 29, 2024

End of Year Recap

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…
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How to Have a Great Team
Dec. 12, 2024

How to Have a Great Team

“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…
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Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: What are Your Attributes?
Oct. 17, 2024

Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: What are Your Attributes?

“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…
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Keys to Communicate with Influence
Oct. 3, 2024

Keys to Communicate with Influence

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…
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Communication in Remote Work
Sept. 19, 2024

Communication in Remote Work

"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…
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Giving Feedback is Great, Receiving Feedback Sucks
Sept. 12, 2024

Giving Feedback is Great, Receiving Feedback Sucks

"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 …
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Signs of a High Performing Team
Aug. 29, 2024

Signs of a High Performing Team

'A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.' – Simon Sinek No 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…
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New Online Skill Courses!
Aug. 22, 2024

New Online Skill Courses!

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…
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Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: How to Prioritize What's REALLY Important
Aug. 17, 2024

Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: How to Prioritize What's REALLY Important

 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…
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Break Time and Some Lessons on Relationships
Aug. 8, 2024

Break Time and Some Lessons on Relationships

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…
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How To Become A Brief Communicator + Arguing About Agility
July 2, 2024

How To Become A Brief Communicator + Arguing About Agility

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…
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On Lean Leadership
June 20, 2024

On Lean Leadership

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 …
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How To Coach For Uncertain Times
June 6, 2024

How To Coach For Uncertain Times

    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…
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Working Remote and Keeping Connected
April 11, 2024

Working Remote and Keeping Connected

"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…
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Starting a New Job? Here is Your Checklist
April 3, 2024

Starting a New Job? Here is Your Checklist

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…
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How to Have WorthWhile Meetings
March 21, 2024

How to Have WorthWhile Meetings

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 …
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Steps to Become More 'Productive'
March 7, 2024

Steps to Become More 'Productive'

 "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…
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Keep It Simple
Feb. 29, 2024

Keep It Simple

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…
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Agility as a Mindset
Feb. 22, 2024

Agility as a Mindset

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…
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Making the Case for Soft Skills
Feb. 18, 2024

Making the Case for Soft Skills

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…
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