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. Grea[...]
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. Grea[...]
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Asked to explain why a few people truly excel, most people 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 possibi[...]
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-nalist[...]
Based on Geoff Colvin's bestselling book, Managing the Cycle of Acting-Out Behavior in the Classroom, this practitioner-friendly guide provides special and general education teachers of autistic students with a six-phase positive behavior support model that includes interventions for each phase. Out[...]
Shows that the skills of business - negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and the rest - obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. This title offers a practical advice that changes the way you think about your job a[...]
Complete Summary of Geoff Colvin's book: "e;Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else"e;.This summary of the ideas from "e;Talent Is Overrated"e; explains that talent is not born, it is made, and exposes how to make it. In this useful summa[...]
Complete summary of Geoff Colvin's book "e;Talent is Overrated"e;The review of the ideas in Geoff Colvin's book shows that talent is not born, but it is made. This summary points that outstanding performance is based on what researchers call "e;deliberate practice"e; - activities w[...]