If you think companies rise and fall based on logic and analytics alone you couldn’t be more wrong – we’re social creatures and science is starting to back that up with research. I’m loving this article by David Rock for Forbes on why social skills are so important at work.

“We have hired and promoted generations of managers with robust analytical skills and poor social skills, and we don’t seem to think that matters.

The technology to see very small things up close showed us we had much wrong about health. The technology to see big things far away showed us we are not the center of the universe.

More recently, a technology called fMRI, that lets us collect images of oxygen use inside an active brain, has shown us that some of our long-held beliefs about human motivation may be wrong.”

Read the complete article here