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Well-liked. “High school” never ends.
If you can't talk about how good you are at something in consulting, you might as well not be good at it. With that being said, sometimes you don't even need to be good at something if you can talk about it like you are. Soft skills always win
Interesting podcast here that you may like, OP.
Raj Chetty, an economist from Harvard, suggest non-cognitive dimensions (i.e. the soft skills) may correlate more strongly with stronger outcomes in adulthood (earnings, employment rates, etc).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?i=1000423727709
Bit of both. You won’t go far if you’re an a-hole but do really good work. You won’t go far if you cannot deliver. I’d say between the 2 I’d go for perform well being more important.
Soft skills always win
I'd like to say they are pretty equal, but know that soft skills win when I see the number of inept consultants out there.
Well liked wins, but to be highly successful you need some measure of both. If you were forced to choose only one though, being well liked can help erase a lot of sins in the performance category, and the converse is generally not true, especially in a people business like ours.
Don’t let anyone tell you we are not a people business. Nobody will give a damn about your brilliant analysis or deck or system implementation if they hate your guts, and most likely it would end up sabotaging your work before you could even show that brilliance.
Soft skills. Google evidently did a study to see what skills their top performers had. 6 of the 8 top skills were in the “soft” category
Unfortunately for people like me who think of a job as just a job (not trying to be besties with colleagues or blow smoke up an MD’s behind), it’s the former.
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