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What if everything you know about raw talent, hard work, and great
performance is wrong? Very few people are truly great at what they
do. But why aren't they? Why don't we manage businesses like Warren
Buffett, play golf like Tiger Woods or play the violin like Itzhak
Perlman? Greatness doesn't come from inborn talent but from
'deliberate practice'. This isn't the kind of hard work that your
parents told you about, but more of it equals better performance.
Talent is Overrated will change the way you think about your life
and work - and will inspire you to achieve more in everything you
do. Great performance isn't reserved for a preordained few.
In the dawning age of brilliant machines, what will people do
better than computers? It's easy to imagine a frightening future in
which technology takes over the jobs that we now get paid to do,
working more accurately and for barely any cost. Computers can
already perform surgery, drive vehicles, write articles and do
intricate legal work, so what hope will there be for tomorrow's
workforce? Drawing on a wealth of research, Geoff Colvin uncovers
the skills that will be in great demand as technology advances -
and how they can be developed. In this new machine age, we
shouldn't try to beat computers at what they can do. We'll lose
that contest. Instead we must look to unlikely places, learn from
the best, and cultivate the human abilities that make us unique.
Never waste a crisis.
Some businesses--and some people--will emerge from today's economic
tumult stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will
weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right
now. Geoff Colvin, one of America's most respected business
jour-nalists, says even the scariest turbulence has an upside. The
best managers know that conventional thinking won't help them in
tough times. They're taking smart, practical steps--frequently
unconventional and even counterintuitive--that will not only keep
them strong, but will also distance them from the pack for years to
come. The dozens of top-performing leaders Colvin interviewed
reject the common view that slashing costs and firing employ-ees
are the only effective tactics. They see volatility as a rich
opportunity to reinvent their organizations and lay the ground-work
for future growth. Colvin shows us how these strategies really
work, using exam-ples of major companies that have successfully
applied them.
"A provocative title for a fascinating book."-Charlie Rose
Asked to explain why a few people truly excel, most of us offer
one of two answers. The first is hard work. Yet we all know plenty
of hard workers who have been doing the same job for years or
decades without becoming great. The other possibility is that the
elite possess an innate talent for excelling in their field. We
assume that Mozart was born with an astounding gift for music, and
Warren Buffett carries a gene for brilliant investing. The trouble
is, scientific evidence doesn't support the notion that specific
natural talents make great performers.
According to distinguished journalist Geoff Colvin, both the hard
work and natural talent camps are wrong. What really makes all the
difference is a highly specific kind of effort-"deliberate
practice"- that few of us pursue when we're practicing golf or
piano or stockpicking.
Based on a wide array of scientific research, "Talent Is
Overrated" shares the secrets of extraordinary performance and
shows how to apply these principles. It features the stories of
extraordinary people who never stopped challenging themselves and
who achieved world- class greatness through deliberate practice-
including Benjamin Franklin, comedian Chris Rock, football star
Jerry Rice, and top CEOs Jeffrey Immelt and Steven Ballmer.
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