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He is more on the introverted side but he has done some of the people leadership stuff as a team captain and he has developed some pretty close friends the past couple years.

Do you have any specific suggestions about activities to broaden or deepen his people skills?

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Given how many decades it took me to get better at people skills, no, he does not want my suggestions on how to get better at it...

The one thing I might say is that it starts with realizing that people actually matter. Being right matters, knowing the tech matters, but people really matter as well.

> The one thing I might say is that it starts with realizing that people actually matter.

A big, big plus to that! That's the major lesson I had to learn these past two years. Smart people can achieve clever things. Smart people who also care about the people around them can achieve great things.

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