I agree with the key insight: "meet people where they are" and "respect your environment". Different situations/groups/cultures require different approaches. B

I agree with the key insight: "meet people where they are" and "respect your environment". Different situations/groups/cultures require different approaches. But then they proposed a bunch of context-free solutions. Advice like "Wait for an invitation" might work at the specific company/group they are in right now, but it definitely won't work everywhere. Anyone here can come up with a counterexample to every single one of the bullet points. A person with strong social skills knows when to talk and when to listen. They know when to take credit and when to give credit. They know how to share bad news in the least hurtful way. You will not learn this from a bunch of "always/never" commandments. We all know that social skills are just as important as technical skills, but I'm not sure we talk enough about how to develop your social skills.