Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else - Couverture rigide

Colvin, Geoff

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1591842247 ISBN 13 : 9781591842248

Editeur : Portfolio, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance.

One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called ?What It Takes to Be Great.? Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch--are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn?t come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.

And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness.

Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and real-world examples. He shows that the skills of business?negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest?obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved.

This new mind-set, combined with Colvin?s practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career?and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Provocative' Time

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.

'Reveals the true path to high performance drawing on compelling stories and stacks of research. A profoundly important bookthat will inspire you to act' Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive

'Reassures us that greatness can be learnt' The Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Portfolio
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1591842247
• ISBN 13: 9781591842248
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240