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Why Are Soft Skills the Hardest?

Wayne Rivers
By Wayne Rivers
10 minutes

FBI Senior Consultant Mike Flentje made a profound statement in a recent Contractor Business Boot Camp: “The soft stuff is the hard stuff.” What does this mean? And why is this the case?

Please tune in this week as Mike and Wayne discuss the difference between hard and soft skills, whether soft skills are product of “nature versus nurture,” and whether and how they can be learned.

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