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While experience, brainpower and willpower all affect performance significantly, only the presence of the right talents… can account for the range of performance.
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Skills are the ‘how-tos’ of a role. They are capabilities that can be transferred from one person to another.
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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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A manager can never breathe motivational life into someone else.
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There is nothing particularly special about talents. If talents are simply recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behavior, then talents are actually commonplace.
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…talent alone isn’t special. It is the matching of the talent with the role.
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As a manager, your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade ‘talented’ by matching their talent to their role.
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A truth ceases to be truth as soon as two people perceive it. – Oscar Wilde
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In the minds of great managers, every role performed at excellence deserves respect. Every role has its own nobility.
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