Skills

1. Execution: The ability to get things done. At the simplest level, knowing how to make lists, attend to mundane details, check and recheck for omitted items or people, and follow plans through to completion. At a more sophisticated level, the ability to constructively and assertively manage power, political relationships, and symbols to get things accomplished in social systems.
2. Interpersonal: The ability to communicate, listen, confront, persuade, and generally to work constructively with others, particularly in situations where people’s anxieties may be high.
3. Decision-Making: The ability to choose among various courses of action under uncertainty, using all perspectives and data that can be efficiently obtained to inform the decision.
4. Negotiation: The ability to work persistently and constructively with peers and superiors to secure resources or assistance that is needed to support one’s team.
5. Inventive: The ability to think of numerous nonobvious ways of getting something done.
6. Envisioning: The ability to envision desired end states and to articulate and communicate them to others.
7. Teaching: The ability to help team members learn both experientially and didactically.

via J. Richard Hackman