“Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.”
I've always thought, believed and said it's never the most talented that succeed. It've seen extraordinarily talented people fall by the wayside over and over again.
Yet we continually hear that word today in reference to looking for workers as if it has some type of important meaning. If we mean talent that a certain type of job skill is needed in the worker we hire, that's fine, but many people are mesmorized by people and their hyped up resumes, thinking they've landed a gold mine when they hire them, only to be bitterly disappointed at the results they receive.
Mary Kay hit it right on the head when she says only those that follow-through will excel. How else could it happen? No matter how good someone is at doing something, if they never complete a project, they're really good for nothing.
If we want to use the word talent, use it in reference to the character of the individual and how they would fit into the business culture. Talent should be who someone is, not some mythical level of expertise.
The other thing is talent is increasingly becoming a group effort, not an individual one. A pool of people combining their skills, communicating and cooperating together is what is really talented. Those are people that will be able to accomplish anything in life as they understand it can never be accomplished alone.
If you want people that can execute, find those that have stuck with something and reached the goal they were striving for. That's someone that has value. Just make sure what they say they've done has really been done before they're hired.
Find a great group of people with follow-through and you have something that most your competitors don't. Mary Kay understood they were the ones who had tremendous value and would excel at Mary Kay.
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