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Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR IDEA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green. I'm here today with the

idea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green. I'm here today with Amy Bernstein, the editor of

HBR, to preview our new January-February double issue.

Amy, thanks so much for joining us.

Pleasure to be here.

Let's start with the spotlight.

This is the section of the magazine that takes one issue and looks at it from several different points of view.

The theme with this issue is soft skills you can't neglect and I was just wondering what's kind of a point of view of this package

The point of view is that we spend a lot of time talking about the technical skills that you need to lead and manage, but there are

a host of skills that you aren't taught in business school, that really do help you grow as a leader and mastering them early or mastering them at all

will always benefit you.

So the first one I'd like to just talk about as part of this is by Hermonia Ibarra from Inciad, and it's called

Becoming a leader requires stepping outside of your comfort zone.

What is Hermonia's key argument here? You know we think of this as the authenticity

paradox and I I really really like this article because authenticity has become one of those buzzwords and it has become the gold standard

for leadership behavior.

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