- Soft skills, such as persuasively selling one's ideas, motivating others, and setting organizational vision, become more important. These are often directly opposed to the functional skills that helped a manager to be successful earlier in their career.
- Latent skills, often things that a leader finds distasteful or unpleasant, become liabilities. These latent skills might include dealing with public speaking, conflict, or organizational politics.
It is essential for a leader to develop personal, authentic strategies to address these two important areas. I will look at each of them in turn on this blog.
