People Care More About How It Feels to Work with You Than How Smart You Are

Technical brilliance matters, but the experience of collaborating with you matters more. Are you responsive? Do you follow through? Do you make meetings productive or draining? Do people leave a conversation with you feeling energized or exhausted? Over time, the person who is consistently pleasant, reliable, and easy to collaborate with gets more opportunities than the brilliant loner. Intelligence opens doors, but likability determines how long they stay open.