Talent is overrated

Talent

Our clients are telling us that talent development and retention are firmly back on the agenda Read  “Talent is Overrated – What Really Separates World-Class Performers from everybody else” by Geoff Colvin.

Why?

  • Why are some people– so incredibly accomplished at what they do, while millions of others in those same fields never rise above mediocrity?
  • Why are some people so extraordinarily creative and innovative?
  • Why can some continue to perform astoundingly at ages when conventional wisdom says it’s impossible?

Special gift?

Almost all of us think we know the answer to those questions: The lucky few super performers were born with a special gift, an innate ability to do exactly what they do so extremely well? But Geoff Colvin found that we’re mostly wrong. A growing body of scientific research shows that it isn’t so – those specific natural abilities don’t explain great performance.

Deliberate practice

Instead, the key is what researchers call deliberate practice – but beware, because it isn’t what most of us do when we think we’re practising. It’s a well-defined set of activities that world-class performers pursue diligently. More of it equals better performance. Tons of it equals great performance.

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