Is Talent Enough?

No, it is not. We so often hear the disgruntled employee complain that "it's not what you know, it's who you know" to explain their career stagnation. In many cases, the whiner is under-qualified, under-experienced, under-educated, under-motivated, and/or under-performing in general - and possibly not much fun to be around, even on the best day.

In other instances, the put-upon and bypassed worker actually is really smart, or possesses rare experience or skills.

Today, more than ever, intelligence and knowledge are not valued as much as the smart possessors of same think they ought to be. Get real! If that's the depth of your analysis, take your Mensa certificate and play a little lunchtime chess.

What's infinitely more important than knowledge or talent or IQ is what one does with it/them. How they are used to analyze problems and conceive solutions. How they get marshalled for acceptance and implementation.

Without those outcomes, all the talent in the world is pretty much useless. So, Edison, the Wright Brothers, and others became icons, while smarter, more gifted inventors and pioneers have been lost to history. btw, as you harness skills and strengths to craft a story line that delivers results, do be sure to maintain at least on foot grounded in the reality of context.

Just because Nebraska is more or less in the middle of the country does not mean that it is an ideal location for a national distribution center, especially if you are selling containers-full of intimate apparel to the Housewives of New Jersey.