Do finance professionals overvalue technical mastery early in their careers? I think relationship-building ends up compounding faster than modeling skills.

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Both skills matter, but technical skills can perhaps be learned earlier, at least so that someone attains a baseline competence. You're probably right that good relationship building skills would bring more substantive results. Skills at relationship building may take much longer to develop, and many might say we're never finished getting better at those.

Good point. There is definitely an early career vs mid career element of this.

I think relationship building is key for moving up the corporate ladder (in my limited experience).

Same here

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