“If an entrepreneur can’t tell a convincing story, I’m not investing. You call it soft. I call it fundamental.”
Warren Buffett would agree. Whenever Buffett is asked about the one most valuable skill that anyone can build today, he says public speaking. He even puts a value on it, “The one easy way to become worth 50 percent more than you are now — at least — is to hone your communication skills — both written and verbal,” Buffett says.
Individual income from manufacturing continues to fall as robots replace workers and artificial intelligence takes over repetitive tasks once handled by humans.
The main task of the jobs that are left — and the new ones created — is to change minds.