Understand “hard skills” contextually. No matter how much time you spend trying to learn “hard skills” such as data science or programming, you will never keep pace with the people whose actual job is to use those skills. You will learn more by asking those people about their work than you will by reading a book about data science or Python and then showing up to work trying to “talk the talk.” Learning about hard skills from the people tasked with applying those skills ensures that you will learn about the specific hard skills that are most important to your organization right now—and that
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