The Survival of Talent - by Peyman Milanfar
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Why the smartest people in the room often stop trying.
If you step back from the day-to-day and look more broadly on the long-term horizon, you get a very clear look at how large organizations actually function. We bring together staggering concentrations of intellectual horsepower; but if you watch these organizations long enough, a quiet, systemic tragedy emerges: over time, a massive chunk of that talent inevitably stalls out or leaves. Meanwhile, the steering wheels of power are overtaken by individuals who aren’t necessarily the deepest thinkers, but who possess a relentless drive to just do things without always thinking them through -…
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