"Excellent communication skills," is a meaningless throwaway line. Does it mean "not an asshole", or "fluent in <company language>", or "able to craft client emails", or "presents at conferences"? Why bother putting that in if you are not excellently communicating what you exactly mean?
Sales? I mean, there is some positive correlation between efficiency of a salesman and various asshole-y characteristics such as intentional misleading (and feeling good about it afterwards), ruthless competition at all costs (including moral costs), not keeping promises after the check has been cashed, etc.
Not for all organizations, but for many sales depts it's exactly what is needed and wanted.
