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Be the Unicorn
12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest
William Vanderbloemen4.4
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About
Learn the essential life skills needed to stand out in an increasingly noisy and competitive world in this groundbreaking new book backed by proprietary research and the author's success 14 years running a top executive search firm.
We are living in an increasingly noisy and competitive world where technology like AI will replace many jobs and soft skills will be more in demand than ever before. Stand Out will walk readers through the unique attributes and qualities shared by the world's top talent and offer tangible steps for developing those skills in a reader's own life. Specific focus will be placed upon "soft skills" that are needed no matter what a person's job or role in life is. Learn how the qualities needed in today's world are different from those needed in previous eras along with straight forward guidance on how to develop these key skills.
Stand Out outlines the twelve traits that make a person the best at what they do. Traits such as being fast, authentic, responsive, agile, and a problem solver among others. With plenty of context, examples, and ideas for personal development, each chapter will have an introduction with an engaging vignette to illustrate the featured trait. Then the chapters delve into three main sections: What We Know, What We've Seen, and What We Do. Chapters will conclude with a box demonstrating why hiring managers love this trait, a feature a figure from popular culture who embodies the featured characteristic.
• Learn and understand what "soft skills" or "human skills" are.
• Discover the top twelve soft skills the most successful leaders, the top 1%, have.
• Understand how to develop these soft skills in your own life for better job success.
• Learn how to apply soft skills to interpersonal relationships outside of work.
• Understand how these soft skills can be applied in different work environments and job fields, especially with the rise of AI technology.
We are living in an increasingly noisy and competitive world where technology like AI will replace many jobs and soft skills will be more in demand than ever before. Stand Out will walk readers through the unique attributes and qualities shared by the world's top talent and offer tangible steps for developing those skills in a reader's own life. Specific focus will be placed upon "soft skills" that are needed no matter what a person's job or role in life is. Learn how the qualities needed in today's world are different from those needed in previous eras along with straight forward guidance on how to develop these key skills.
Stand Out outlines the twelve traits that make a person the best at what they do. Traits such as being fast, authentic, responsive, agile, and a problem solver among others. With plenty of context, examples, and ideas for personal development, each chapter will have an introduction with an engaging vignette to illustrate the featured trait. Then the chapters delve into three main sections: What We Know, What We've Seen, and What We Do. Chapters will conclude with a box demonstrating why hiring managers love this trait, a feature a figure from popular culture who embodies the featured characteristic.
• Learn and understand what "soft skills" or "human skills" are.
• Discover the top twelve soft skills the most successful leaders, the top 1%, have.
• Understand how to develop these soft skills in your own life for better job success.
• Learn how to apply soft skills to interpersonal relationships outside of work.
• Understand how these soft skills can be applied in different work environments and job fields, especially with the rise of AI technology.