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...sees networking as a skill so essential, in fact, that at the Women’s Leadership Conference, which the WLP holds annually, a workshop taught young women essential networking skills like hand-shaking, name-dropping, and interest-advancing. “Networking—it’s difficult if you haven’t done it before,” says Hyde. “You’re essentially going up to someone and saying, ‘What can you do for me?’ How do you walk up to someone, shake their hand...
...slasher and dasher. And a true skill player,” Mazzoleni said. “It is nice to see someone who has worked so hard and given so much to this program rewarded. He’s a humble man and this is a very rewarding milestone...
...Vermont likes to open it up a lot,” Moore said. “We knew their run-and-gun style would backfire eventually, and we’d get our chances. We’ve got the skill that can play that open game, and it worked...
...thus remains a self-perpetuating Elite, a board of directors that appoints its own successors. All the incoming leaders are insiders, picked 20 years ago by senior patrons for promotion, then rotated through a series of jobs in Zhongnanhai and the provinces to test both their loyalty and their skill in insider maneuverings. The process has generated a roster of presentable technocrats, intelligent and well-informed, but for the most part cautious, committed more to policy continuity than to renewal and change...
...University needs to acknowledge that intelligence and academic success are not synonymous with teaching skill. Harvard recruits the best and the brightest—which is as it should be at a research institution. But Harvard is a teaching university as well, and the best and the brightest teach undergraduates every day. The best and the brightest need to learn to teach. Really, who can learn effectively from teachers who don’t know how to teach...