First, develop soft skills and see how employees who are trusted, valued, respected and treated cheerfully actually begin to flourish and prosper.

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These creepy little monsters are the result of research undertaken at Harvard to develop nature-inspired soft robots.

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Although it pointedly declined a bail-out in America, it has been happy to take grants and soft loans in Germany and Romania to develop an efficient engine.

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The soft skills that create happiness at work are not expensive to develop.

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