![]() ![]() ![]() "Some 40 years of research show that specific, innate gifts are not necessary for great performance. ![]() The thesis of Talent is Overrated is that the greatest achievers succeed through lifelong "deliberate practice." Colvin characterizes it as “activity designed specifically to improve performance, often with a teacher’s help it pushes the practicer just beyond, but not way beyond, his or her current limits it can be repeated a lot feedback on results is continuously available it’s highly demanding mentally, whether the activity is purely intellectual, such as chess or business-related activities, or heavily physical, such as sports and it isn’t much fun". He is a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune Magazine.Ĭolvin obtained a degree in economics from Harvard and received his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. ![]() He is co-author of Angel Customers and Demon Customers: Discover Which is Which and Turbocharge Your Stock ( ISBN 9781591840077). Geoffrey Colvin is the author of Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will ( ISBN 1857886380) Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else ( ISBN 9781591842248) and The Upside of the Downturn: Management Strategies for Difficult Times. ![]()
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