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The digital world is a beautiful thing. Apps boost our productivity and elevate our personal lives. eBooks make reading more accessible and elegant. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter connect us - and allow for the sharing of information in radically new ways. But along with the opening of new frontiers that technology brings, I'm witnessing a closing of something else. We just don't personally interact in the same ways that we once did. Tempers have grown quicker. Conversations have become shorter. And good manners are becoming obsolete. People write things online that they'd never dare to say to another human being in person. Critics abound. Cynics flourish. And controversy seems to get more views than simple acts of decency - and humanity. Yes, I completely get I'm painting the world we reside in with some broad brush strokes. Yes, there are massive amounts of people who are polite, kind and awesome. And yes, there are complete communities of i...

SKILLS OF MANAGERS Managers are required to possess various skills for successful performance of their responsibilities. These skills are generally classified into three though some authors have four categories. TECHNICAL SKILLS o    Refers to ability and knowledge in using the equipment, techniques and procedures involved in performing tasks.           E.g:  Ability in programming and operating computer. HUMAN/INTERPERSONAL SKILLS o    Consist of ability to work effectively with other people both as individuals and as members of a group. o    While technical skills involve mastery of things, human skills are concerned with understanding of people. CONCEPTUAL/ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS o    Ability to see the whole organization and the interrelationships between its parts. o    Conceptual skills help the manager to conceptualize the environment,...

ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS                                                                                                Good oral ability is an important qualification to managers, entrepreneurs... it helps them deal with management and entrepreneurial problems in that speech is a powerful agent of persuasion. Oral communication is preferred to the written from because it is reliable and more important in that it provides opportunities for clarification and immediate feedback. Thus, any person who takes the troub...