Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Talent’
Gifts
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Faith, Gifts, God, Philosophy, Quotes, Talent on January 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Bull’s Eye
Posted in Quotes, tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Genius, Quotes, Talent on December 17, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. | |
— Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Gifts |
Jacked 3 | |
2015 | I’d Settle For Interesting |
2014 | Old Math |
2013 | Adequate Explanation |
2012 | Superior Discovery |
2011 | Welcome Home And Thank You!! |
Two Heritages | |
Talent Hates To Move
Posted in Quotes, tagged Boris Groysberg, Bryan Gardiner, Business, Forget Stars — Companies Do Best When They Grow Their Own Talent, Harvard Business School, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Quotes, Stanford University, Superstar Employees, Talent, Wired Magazine, Wired.com on March 1, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Yet hiring managers, VCs, and tech-focused talent agencies worship at the altar of the A-player, assuming that they need a fleet of superstars to build a great company. And they’re willing to steal them, if necessary. … After all, exceptional employees aren’t just a little bit better than the average worker. They’re 1,000 times better. They’re more productive, more creative … more everything. We should shower them with money and perks and do whatever it takes to keep them happy. Right? | |
Wrong. Companies are better served when they double down on cultivating in-house talent instead. Sure, superstar workers exist. And yes, they can be extremely productive and beneficial to a company’s bottom line. But their stardom is frequently context-specific, and it doesn’t always survive the transfer. When Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg looked at the talent portability of 1,052 rock-star financial analysts, he found that about half did poorly in the year following their switch. And those whose work suffered never recovered. | |
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Star talent is partly innate, sure, but it’s also linked to specific teams and projects or just the culture of a company. As Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford, puts it: “People’s performance is a function not just of their individual abilities but also of the systems in which they work.” Talent, it seems, really hates to move around. | |
— Bryan Gardiner | |
From the article: “Forget Stars — Companies Do Best When They Grow Their Own Talent“ | |
Appearing in Wired Magazine, dtd: July 2016 | |
The following is a link to the original article: http://www.wired.com/2016/07/forget-stars-companies-best-grow-talent/ | |
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2016 | Looking To November |
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2013 | Learning Bitter |
2012 | Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War |
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2011 | There Is No God, But God |
2010 | Another Running Book… |
Well, Maybe Not “No” Talent
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged 10 Things That Require Zero Talent, Philosophy, Quotes, Talent on July 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
10 Things That Require Zero Talent |
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Being on time | |
Work Ethic | |
Effort | |
Body language | |
Energy | |
Attitude | |
Passion | |
Being Coachable | |
Doing Extra | |
Being Prepared | |
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A Trip To The Library | |
Great Expectations | |
2014 | Pass The Soul |
2013 | Zapping Music And Art |
2012 | Not Quite Fantastic |
That Kid Is Back | |
2011 | Wolves At The Door |
2010 | I’m Feeling Patriotic… (Well, more than usual, anyway.) |
Beating the Heat… | |
How To Be Omnipotent
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Calvin Coolidge, Determination, Education, Genius, Persistence, Philosophy, Quotes, Talent on February 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | |
— Calvin Coolidge | |
[Emphasis provided by yours truly… — KMAB] | |
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