Notes

1. David Z. Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz, “Sorry Strivers, Talent Matters,” New York Times, November 19, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/sorry-strivers-talent-matters.html#p5.

2. Geoff Colvin, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (New York: Portfolio, 2010).

3. K. Anders Ericsson, The Road to Excellence: The Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996). See also Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008).

4. Laura Stack, SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2010).

5. “Many Managers ...

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