Talent is Overrated
What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Published on 11. January 2011
224 pages
978-1-85788-433-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,91 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-85788-433-3 (9781857884333)
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Geoff Colvin
Talent is Overrated 2nd Edition
What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
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02/2019
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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Person
Geoff Colvin is Fortune Magazine's senior editor-at-large and is also the author of Talent is Overrated and The Upside of the Downturn. He has served as moderator of the Fortune Global Forum, where he has interviewed Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Herb Kelleher, Peter Drucker and other business legends. Colvin graduated Harvard cum-laude with a B.A. in Economics, and received his MBA from New York University's Stern School.
