As I get older, life starts looking less like a well-laid-out blueprint and more like a toddler’s finger painting: unpredictable, bizarre, and somehow still deeply meaningful. It’s basically a big blob of nothing and everything, depending on how you choose to look at it. It can also shape-shift. People can fall, even though everyone thought […]
Tag: emotional intelligence
The first article in this series was inspired by a Soba UK study on the critical importance of good, original and most importantly human communication in the consulting industry. The glossy and assured voice of ChatGPT is often airy, evasive, and intangible, which can give an overall impression of telling clients what they want to […]
The rapidly changing world of AI technology has sparked an inundation of theories that many jobs will soon become obsolete. This year, Bill Gates predicted that only three jobs will survive the next few decades, whilst the ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton has similarly warned that with AI will come mass unemployment. Whilst such dire […]
When asked about important skills to succeed in the consulting field, there are generally some pretty standard responses: communication, organisation, team work, problem solving, and analytical thinking. Whilst these are undeniably central to the role of a consultant, there is one skill that no one ever acknowledges. Consulting is a ‘people game’. Your role as […]
There are few responsibilities we have at work that won’t be handed over to computers and automatons in the decades to come, but one skill that will never be fully devolved to the robots is emotional intelligence. Every encounter you have at work is defined by the emotional intelligence of those involved. Even when you […]