Henna Pryor

So there has been ups and downs on this journey.

And there was a meeting that we had.

And what I admired so much is after the meeting, we got on a call and he said, Hannah,

I didn't really love how that meeting went.

And I value your opinion.

What could I have done differently?

How could I have let that meeting go in a different direction?

What could I as a leader have improved on?

I know asking that felt incredibly awkward, veering on vulnerable, right?

There was some emotional exposure there.

But to me, a leader that has the courage, the willingness to stay in the discomfort of a question like that,

is the marker of a leader who is adaptable, who is willing to adjust.

And I was extremely impressed by it.

So that was the most probably the recent one I can think of.

Oh gosh, I laugh that people still ask this question, right?

In the age of AI, hard skills are becoming easier to outsource, automate, become repeatable through machines.

Soft skills are not soft anymore.

Soft skills are power skills.

I think today we've seen some data that suggests that the three power skills are going to be communication,

ability to hold and maintain boundaries and public speaking, which is a form of communication.