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The 25 most important business and career skills
1. The 25 Most Important
Business & Career Skills
All Smart People Should Know
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2. 1. Business Management
• Basically, the art of getting people to do
things.
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3. 2. Marketing
• Because the purpose of a business is to
find a customer, thus, marketing.
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4. 3. Selling
• Knowing how to sell things to people who
need them is an important asset to have.
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5. 4. Starting a Business
• How long can you be a faceless drone
toiling inside a huge, impersonal
organization?
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6. 5. Communication
• Hell might be other people (modifying
Sartre a bit here), but you can still make
this a heaven of rewarding relationships.
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7. 6. Project Management
• Because the future of work is project
management - do one good project, learn
your lessons, move to the next...
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8. 7. Career Management
• Career is not just only shining your
resume and giving job interviews, it is also
about doing what you love, what you are
good at, and doing it well. It is about being
a professional, people.
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9. 8. Negotiation
• Because life is a negotiation, (this is also a
tagline for a forgetful movie).
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10. 9. Persuasion
• How to make others see your point of
view, how to get their attention...this one is
important too.
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11. 10. Power
• I know, the word has a negative aura
around it, but always remember, with great
power comes great responsibility.
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12. 11. Creativity
• Because curiosity might have killed the cat
somewhere in a story, but it takes human
civilization forward to whatever end is
awaiting us all.
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13. 12. Problem Solving
• Because if you are part of the solution,
you are part of the problem. (thank you ,
Eldridge Cleaver)
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14. 13. Lateral Thinking
• Sometimes, to think outside the box, really
step outside the box.
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15. 14. Decision Making
• Drucker said, 'it is not about making right
decisions' - it is about considering the data
and the options, and then going full ahead.
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16. 15. Critical Thinking
• Because everybody is selling something
or pushing some agenda at us all the time
and we got to detect B.S. before it infects
us.
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17. 16. Meetings Management
• Because meetings kill time and
productivity if not done well, and mostly
they aren't done well.
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18. 17. Fast Reading
• An important asset to have to help you
deal with information overload.
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19. 18. Memory
• How to make sense of things and
remember them - otherwise, we remember
best what is useless.
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20. 19. Stress Management
• Get a life!
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21. 20. Happiness
• Because 'want' is an evil word!
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22. 21. Writing
• Because good writing denotes good
thinking.
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23. 22. Teaching Yourself
• Because 80% of all education happens
outside schools and colleges.
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24. 23. Self Management
• Start with knowing thyself. Yes, this one is
a biggie. As a Peanuts cartoon goes, “…
this one is going to take time.”
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25. 24. Time Management
• Because all of us get the same 24 hours.
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26. 25. Leadership
• Start by leading by example - and having
an idea of where you are leading them.
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