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Originally Posted by fjtorres
At the risk of getting dragged into the crossfire, a bibliographical note:
Malcolm Gladwell's OUTLIERS predicates that success is due primarilly to blind luck. Talent is *not* the determining factor, just luck and stubborness.
Quite popular, that book.
Especially with the Terry Malloys of the world.
Anyway, resume the artillery barrages...  |
BTW, do you honestly feel that if Malcolm Gladwell was to walk into the boardrooms of the top 500 companies and check credentials, that he would find many there who were unqualified in a tertiary sense, board members who arrived at their position purely by "being lucky"? I truly doubt it. The recent dot.com phenomena is about the only real exception, several of the more successful among their CEOs dropped out of university, but in almost all cases they were recognised as autodidacts of exceptional tenacity and ability.