From the course: Corporate Finance: Robust Financial Modeling
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Importance of soft skills
From the course: Corporate Finance: Robust Financial Modeling
Importance of soft skills
- You may have decided to watch this course because of your interest in the more technical aspects of financial modeling. Certainly, as a model developer, you need to have confidence in your product, but this is only part of what is needed to deliver successful outcomes. Allow me to share a cautionary tale with you. It was 2007 and I was sitting in a meeting room in freezing cold Canberra, presenting a funding model to one of my clients. As the meeting continued, I felt invincible navigating my way around this impressive-looking spreadsheet like a surgeon performing a complex medical procedure. But it all came unstuck when my client stopped me and uttered five simple words. "This isn't what I needed." suddenly, this surgeon heard a flatline. I was so sure I delivered what I was asked to. Now back then, being super confident in my technical skills but equally devoid of interpersonal skills, I decided to challenge the…
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