In the USA, where basketball is one of the most popular sports, there’s a saying: “You can’t coach height,” meaning that no amount of coaching will make a player taller, and being tall is an important aspect of success...
Greatness is the result of the people daring to do things which are necessary to become great-bold, willing to be different, willing to live out of their comfort-zone for a long period of time, willing to look wrong temporarily...
Explaining the challenges for a real performer in an organisation where the structure is too big and too complex.
Excerpts from "Status Anxiety"
The travails (painful part )of being an employee include not only uncertainty about the duration of one's employment...
It is a bias under which an individual overestimates his own mental ability.
This is the reason many people think of themselves as great although their work may be terrible.
If you come across someone whose performance is average, but they’re...