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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... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “But the evidence shows also that by understanding how a few become great, anyone can become better”
  • “IQ is a decent predictor of performance on an unfamiliar task, but once a person has been at a job for a few years, IQ predicts little or nothing about performance”
  • “It shows that the price of top-level achievement is extraordinarily high”

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  1. Geoffrey Colvin (Author)
 

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