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Please don’t call them soft skills. If they weren’t hard, there’d be better leadership out there.
by zeckalpha 6y ago
Please don’t call them soft skills. If they weren’t hard, there’d be better leadership out there.
- kaoD 6y agoThis might be just a problem on English where hard is a homonym ("rigid" vs "effortful"). Notice their antonyms differ: "soft" vs "easy".
- Taylor_OD 6y agoSoft skills != easy skills.
- username90 6y agoSoft skills means they are hard to measure. That is the original definition. Hard skills are easy to test, you either solved the problem or you didn't. With soft skills you don't really know, you need to measure it subjectively.
- zeckalpha 6y agoSome of the things mentioned in the article are easy to measure.
- alchemism 6y agoThe phrase is also used in science — “soft science” as a category differentiates psychology and anthropology from chemistry and physics.