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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12016) Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t In “The Making…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker (August 21, 2013) in which Gladwell makes a vigorous effort to clarify issues that always result from careless reading and simplistic thinking. To read…
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Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2007). It was co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely You can purchase a copy of the complete nine-page article…
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The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future — Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell…
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Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely, “The Making of an Expert,” that appeared in the Harvard Business Review(July/August 2007). You can purchase a copy of the complete nine-page article and/or subscribe to HBR [click here]. *…
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Does “practice make perfect”?
At least some people continue to insist that “practice makes perfect.” Does it? No. Decades of research (notably by Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida State University) leave no doubt that an individual’s peak performance is the result (on…
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