Sunday, January 30, 2011

Talent Is Overrated : What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

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English | Self-help | Audio MP3/64Kbps | 308 MB

Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller
Asked to explain why a few people truly excel, most people offer one of two answers. The first is hard work. Yet we all know plenty of hard workers who have been doing the same job for years or decades without becoming great. The other possibility is that the elite possess an innate talent for excelling in their field. We assume that Mozart was born with an astounding gift for music, and Warren Buffett carries a gene for brilliant investing. The trouble is, scientific evidence doesn't support the notion that specific natural talents make great performers.

According to distinguished journalist Geoff Colvin, both the hard work and natural talent camps are wrong. What really makes the difference is a highly specific kind of effort-"deliberate practice"-that few of us pursue when we're practicing golf or piano or stockpicking. Based on scientific research, Talent is Overrated shares the secrets of extraordinary performance and shows how to apply these principles. It features the stories of people who achieved world-class greatness through deliberate practice-including Benjamin Franklin, comedian Chris Rock, football star Jerry Rice, and top CEOs Jeffrey Immelt and Steven Ballmer.

About the Author
Geoff Colvin, Fortune's senior editor at large, writes the magazine's popular column "Value Driven" and is the author of The Upside of the Downturn. He lectures widely and is the lead moderator for the Fortune Global Forum. He also offers daily business commentary on the CBS Radio Network. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.


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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster | ISBN: 1929494750 | English | Audio MP3/320 kbps | 467 MB
The bestselling book that offers precious lessons in creating and sustaining a strong family culture in a turbulent world.

No family is free from challenges from its own members or from the outside world. Now, with the same profound insight, simplicity and practical wisdom that propelled THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE to worldwide acclaim, Stephen R. Covey focuses on the primary concern of society today - the family. Using the 7 Habits Covey creates a powerful framework of timeless, universal and self-evident principles that enable family members to communicate effectively about their problems and resolve them. He also shows how families can move from a problem-solving to a creative mind-set, focusing on accomplishing goals and contributing together in meaningful ways.

Book helps us to develop three things which will help us and our family stays on track. It enlightens us with three major purposes.

1. Clear Vision of your destination: Families throughout the world have created sense of shared vision and values through the development of a "Family mission statement". Book helps us to develop such a statement of how to unify and strengthen your family. A family mission statement can become your family's unique "destination" and the values it contains will represent our guidelines. When our destination is clear, we can keep coming back to the flight plan time and time again. In fact, the journey is really part of our destination.

2. A Flight Plan: It is important that our flight plan is based on the principles that will enable us to arrive at our destination. Book is based on universal, timeless and self-evident principles that are true in the world of human relations. This principle ultimately governs in everybody's life. Violation of these principles guarantees failure in family or other situations. Second purpose strongly shows us how, regardless of our situation, the book framework can be enormously useful tool in helping us diagnose our situation and create positive change from the inside out.

3. A compass: Third purpose is to help us recognize and develop four unique gifts we have that enable us to become an agent of change in our family. These gifts become a compass or an inner guidance system that will help our family stay on course as we move towards our destination.


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