Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Talent, hard work, and determination...

When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good? What separates a good organizational contributor from an exceptional one? We gain some insight on the subject as Christopher Percy Collier from Fastcompany.com interviews Anders Ericsson.

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Here's an additional article from the New York Times

Ericsson has spent 25 years interviewing and analyzing high-flying professionals. He's the coeditor of the 918-page book Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2006), in which he says elite performers aren't genetically superior. They just do things differently.