DIGGING DOWN DEEP

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet

Your "silver lining" the next time you face difficult circumstances.

Learn To Write Well

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."

Truman Capote

20th century American author

The most important skill in business:  The ability to communicate effectively in writing.

The least prevalent skill in business:  The ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Hiring the Unconventional

"We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it."

Charles Dudley Warner
19th century essayist/novelist

Would you have hired Santa to head up distribution?

Finding the Best and the Brightest

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

R. Buckminster Fuller

Talent.

I suppose if we could always see it we would only surround ourselves with those who have it.

How do you decide who is and is not talented?

Finding the Best

"There is something much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Robert Half
Founder, Robert Half Staffing

If you could do it all this wouldn't matter but you can't and it does, particularly if you are a manager.

I think recognizing talent in others is the first job requirement for a good manager, with being able to make the best use of that talent, the second.

What do you think?