12 Really Necessary Things to Learn

The brilliant Guy Kawasaki has a list of the twelve things to learn this year. Here’s the list:
1. How to talk to your boss.
2. How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run.
3. How to run a meeting.
4. How to figure out anything on your own.
5. How to negotiate.
6. How to have a conversation.
7. How to explain something in thirty seconds.
8. How to write a one-page report.
9. How to write a five-sentence email.
10. How to get along with co-workers.
11. How to use PowerPoint.
12. How to leave a voicemail.
Read the whole detailed post here.
Obviously these are tacit skills and competencies that grow with practice and life long learning. Knowing how important they are focuses the effort. Learning how to do any of these things better makes your work life infinitely easier and better.
Stephen Downes has a good extension of Guy’s post here.
Stephen