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by: Geoff Colvin See Larger Image List Price: $25.95 Our Price: $17.13 You Save: $8.82 (34%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $15.49 Third Party New Price: $15.64 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 153.9 EAN: 9781591842248 ISBN: 1591842247 Label: Portfolio Hardcover Manufacturer: Portfolio Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 16, 2008 Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover Sales Rank: 108 Studio: Portfolio Hardcover Related Items: Outliers: The Story of Success Who: The A Method for Hiring The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance. 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. Greatness doesn’t come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades. And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness. Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and real-world examples. He shows that the skills of business—negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest—obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved. This new mind-set, combined with Colvin’s practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career—and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - How Do They Get So Good? Geoff Colvin deals with a fascinating and worthwhile subject: How do extraordinary, world-class performers get to be so good? This is an outstanding book! The basic argument of the book is that high level skill is achieved primarily through tons and tons of hard work over a long period of time. (In other words, I'll have to write a lot more book reviews in order to start getting more people to find my reviews "helpful".) So, rather than innate skill or some kind of mysterious "giftedness" ... Read More Rating: - Talent Is Overrated, But for Many, Perseverance Is the Final Issue This book is written to challenge the notion that high performance is either about innate talent or hard work. Colvin makes it possible for business people (and other professionals) to think for themselves rather than listen to the parade of management experts, consultants and celebrity CEOs who claim that they have the final answer about productivity and human performance. This book will help you separate the nuggets from the nonsense. Colvin knows the latest research on expertise and much ... Read More Rating: - Debunks the talent myth This is a great book that exposes in great detail the "talent myth" and the notion that all great achievers have superior innate intelligence. The author explores the careers of many sports, music and business greats, and concludes that these high achievers' success results from "deliberate practice," which is the studied repetition and improvement of those things in your field that you're NOT good at. Experts and superior performers also immerse themselves totally in their "domain," which gives ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating! This book is fascinating in the respect that it is simple, but so very true. When you read it, what you realize is that to become great at anything, and I do mean anything, it requires a certain persona that most of us just don't have. Also, after I had completed the book, there was this certain something that I had that I felt no one else had--a certain knowledge that I could be great at anything I wanted to become great at--it is a must read book for anyone that wants to become truly great at whatever. Rating: - Do you believe you could be a World-Class Performer? Good news...Geoff Colvin provides evidence that great performance is not reserved for a pre-ordained few. Bad news...It is available to you and everyone...if you are willing to pay the price. "What do you really believe? Do you believe you have a choice in the matter? Do you believe if you do the work, properly designed with intense focus for hours a day and years on end, your performance will grow dramatically better and eventually reach the highest levels?" One of the fundamental questions ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Job Hunting & Careers - Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - Guides Job Hunting & Careers - Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - General Job Hunting & Careers - Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - General AAS Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - General AAS Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Applied Psychology