The Best Skills for the Post-Pandemic Business World Are the Soft Ones

Work in the time of COVID requires max humanity.

8 min readSep 19, 2021

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Weird. The world is weird. We read headlines about ‘the new normal,’ but this new normal wasn’t normal before, which is why it’s weird.

We got back to business, sort of. We Zoom, we Slack, we try to read between the lines of the WhatsApp…

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The Best Skills for the Post-Pandemic Business World Are the Soft Ones

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