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Demand for people with interpersonal skills has been on the rise for decades. Harvard research shows that, over a 30-year period, jobs that require a lot of social interaction grew by 12 percentage ...

There is a distinct difference between interpersonal communication and business communication. A business owner who understands the difference between the two, with regard to audience, intent and ...