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You must know the difference between talent, skills and knowledge. You must know which of these can be taught and which can only be hired in.
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The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another… In contrast, the power of talent is that it is transferable from situation to situation.
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Competencies are part skills, part knowledge, and part talent. They lump together, haphazardly, some characteristics that can be taught with others that cannot.
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…we now know that excellence in every role requires distinct talents and that these talents, unlike skills and knowledge, are extraordinarily difficult to train.
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When we take time and effort to generate knowledge and find an answer rather than just reading it, our memory retention is increased. – Josh Davis
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Anytime there are gaps in our knowledge, fear fills in those gaps – a fear that overshadows the possibility of a payoff.
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We all have an overwhelming need to display and share what we know. And we do it excessively.
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The shelf life of knowledge, especially technical knowledge, is continuously shrinking.
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…smart managers need to shed the overconfident bias that they know as much as their employees know in specific areas.
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Today the key to wealth is knowledge. As a result, the company needs the knowledge worker far more than the knowledge worker needs them.
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