Probably the most important skill I’ve learned in business and in life is how to engage with people — how to form a genuine connection from the first moment we encounter each other. This valuable expertise has been honed throughout careers as a lawyer, a business development executive, a screenwriter and a keynote speaker, but it got a giant boost in the past decade from watching people, up close and personal, doing it really, really badly.

That is — watching people meet movie stars.

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Have a happy day!

Valerie