Whatever may be the nature of your work – sales, customer service, management, software development, project management, people development, financial wizardry, research, etc. – every job requires you to deal with people.
In a scenario where selection processes ensure that everyone has sufficient subject-matter-expertise and high I.Q. - what gives you the competitive edge in your career is how successfully you handle people. Whether one likes it or not, major decisions and deals still unfold on the basis of interpersonal interactions. People prefer to do business with people they like. |