What can you teach? Intangibles vs tangibles

I saw the thread on street smarts in the business and how that pertains to common sense. I just wanted follow-up with a question related to that topic. To everyone above a first-year, what are you willing to teach? Would you rather have to teach technicals of the business but had an outstanding work ethic and willingness to learn? Or would you rather have someone who is strong with work and presentations, but lacks the social skills that this business requires or is there a grey area? Tell me your thoughts.

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i'm only in high school but ive done more research on this then ANYONE hear on this. The thing is, you need to be 3-parts technical and 5-parts social. What does that mean? DCF DCF DCF. And when your not studying models, read about economic theory. Try out Adam Smith's Invisible Hand four a start.

Now about 5-parts social that you CAN teach. practice presenting in the mirror to be more confident, imagine your boss in his underwear if he's male (if shes female than dont do that lol), crash on your coworkers couches every so often, offer to buy your bosses lunch, etc.

no matter what anyone tells you this is the best things you can do for yourself

 

That didn't really answer my question. Ironically, that's a social skill that could be added into this. My question was to anyone in a supervisor position, would you rather teach the someone the mechanics, the financial modeling, etc. or would rather teach them social skills or hope someone's social skills will develop on the job? In my opinion, I would think that you can always learn how to make a financial model. It takes practice and learning from your mistakes. But on how to interact with clients, if someone isn't good at that, can someone get better at that? Of the two, who would rather have on your team?

 
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