A study by Morgan McCall and Michael Lombardo found technical skills help us enter our chosen professional field, as well as early management positions, but decrease in importance as we are promoted to higher-level leadership positions.¹⁰ On the other hand, conceptual skills become an increasingly important factor in our success as we move up the leadership ladder. Our level of interpersonal skills, or lack thereof, largely account for how we will be judged by our coworkers and followers and the likelihood of our promotion to positions of leadership or termination.

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