All tagged Essential skills
Bill Gates said that he once believed that, if someone had a high IQ, they could be good at everything. He doesn't anymore, and that's a key idea to come to terms with if you want to build a great enterprise.
Because great teams and achievements are, as I discuss in today's episode, built on the back of diverse capabilities and people.
I’ve written before about how the most important subject at business school is also the least respected i.e. anything to do with Human Resources.
The conventional view is that those subjects are “soft and fluffy”, subjects that don’t merit real attention - not like Strategy or Finance, for example. But how we work with each other, how we lead and manage those who we’re responsible for is, in fact, the single most important driver of success in any business, bar none.
“Why are we so afraid of secrets? Why won’t we take risks and figure out something new? We have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered?” - Peter Thiel
The problem with the way our educational system works, in general, is that it is designed to produce established skill sets (mostly) that serve a world that has structure. Identify your specific focus area early, dedicate most if not all of your time and academic resources towards that focus area and dutifully march down that well-trodden path to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, programmer, etc.
