Soft skills... Soft skills....

OH! I know. That's when you use wrist locks and grapple into submission holds rather than smash their face flat and kick their naughty bits up between their ears... Yeah, I've got those. No problem.

Jeff, they made me take ALL the weapons home. How do you rate a bat?

But on a (slightly) more serious note, it is hard for some of us to polish our soft skills. I can make two suggestions. Talk to a manager/mentor/leader that you like and respect and find out how he/she does it. I found one book really interesting on this topic just this year. It's called Becoming A Technical Leader by Gerald Weinberg. Worth a read.

Now, back to more important topics... Would a jo... uh, I mean, walking stick, yeah, a walking stick, be OK?