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While ‘manners maketh the man’, soft skills make a good manager

Great managers maintain a delicate balance between hard and soft skills.

However, while there is no denying the importance of hard skills, far too much emphasis is placed on them. And it is soft skills that propel managers to excel.

Schooldays are usually dominated by learning and practising the hard skills of writing, mathematics and the natural and physical sciences. Even subjects like history, geography and languages are taught in a

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