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3 Soft Skills CEOs Can’t Ignore

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Texas CEO Magazine
Feb 07, 2023
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 3 Soft Skills CEOs Can’t Ignore

What impairs most CEOs? The “soft stuff,” according to former Campbell Soup CEO Douglas Conant. Many surprises await first-time CEOs, but the biggest in my experience is one that requires multiple soft skills: the imperative to deal with people of all kinds. Often these are groups that new CEOs have rarely or never interacted with before – from board me…

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