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This week I was interested to read an article in the AFR titled “Picking leaders the brainy way”.  For internal staff, the PDFed article is in eLibrary.

This was of particular interest to me, as I know that this is a challenge that we have struggled with over the past 10 years.   Hence, we’re keen to improve at it, as much as we can (and, by extension, if you can help us do so, we’d like to hear from you).

Note that this is not to say that we have a bad bunch of employees currently – just that we’ve had to do a bit of “getting the right people on the bus” in the past, and probably will have to do more in future.

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For those who found value in the previous post about the 10,000 hour prerequisite required to achieve “Guru” status in your chosen field, there was a related article in the AFR recently.

The article “Open your mind to growth” (15th September) was written to promote the release of the book “Mindest: the new psychology of success” by Stanford psychology professor, Carol Dweck.

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As noted previously, I have challenged all employees (and a few absent shareholders might participate, as well) to select an area of value to the company and undertake (in that area) to progressively develop their capability till they reach “Guru Status”.

That’s why we found these three articles to be of great interest.

”A star is Made” by Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt
New York Times.   7th May 2006
(note, Dubner and Levitt are from Freakonomics)

“Success is all in the mind” by Shelley Gare
The Australian.  24th January 2009

“A wealth of explanations for earthly riches” by Sue Halpern
AFR.  7th August 2009

For employees, there’s copies of all 3 articles saved for each in our eLibrary:
L:\Market Information\By Issue\Management

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