Bill Gates, The Beetles and Mozart
Posted by Christophe on March 10, 2009
What do Bill Gates, The Beetles and Mozart have in common?
They all super achieved.
Why?
Because they all were born geniuses?
Not necessarily.
Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, exposes in his newly released book Outliers: The Story of Success a very different reality.
According to Gladwell, extraordinary success is related to
- a variety of social aspects – the period someone is born into, the surrounding culture, availability of opportunities, connections and luck
- the sheer amount of work in a field done at an early age – 10,000 concentrated hours
The bottom line is that practice, practice, practice, and more practice is necessary for high performance.
As a leader, are you creating a framework for repeat practice?
As a team member, are you relentlessly paying your 10,000 hour dues?
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