Is there anyone out there who does not enjoy Thanksgiving dinner? How about the Fourth of July BBQ? Or the office potluck where everyone brings copious amounts of food?

With the pace of business these days, it’s easy to get caught up in pursuing the next project, the next objective, the next dollar. It’s also extremely dangerous to fall into this trap and lose sight of what is really important . . .

I have learned a ton of things over my time in the workplace. Perhaps no lesson was more transformational than the importance of “soft skills” versus “hard skills.”

American folklore loves to celebrate the rugged individual that blazed trails for all to follow. Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, the young Abraham Lincoln. All these big, rugged, self-sufficient men took on the world single handedly and prevailed. Poppycock!