"Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel."
The insight that Mary Kay rightly had above, is one of the reasons I get extremely tired of this thing people call "talent." It really is meaningless to anything in a business and a person.
How do you define talent? People give it some type of magical connotation that is usually not defined; and really I don't think it can be.
Now if you want to equate what is called "talent" with the inner qualities of a person, I'm all for it, although it still gets you away from what is really important.
Why do you think so many people who some may be smarter than, or possibly even have better skills, than their co-workers, not perform near the ability of them? It's because someone that follows through on a project is who counts, not someone that has a reputation based on knowing something.
That old saying that you're paid for what you know isn't accurate. We're really paid and successful for what we do with what we know.
I'd rather have a hundred people with less so-called talent, that have the attitude that they want to excel and make something great, than some elitest that thinks they're great based on a college they may have went to or grades they received. That means nothing in the competitive business world we live in.
As a matter of fact, it can even be better to hire hungry people who want to prove themselves, as they're much more apt to finish successfully what they start, than those that think they're there because of some type of privileged attitude.
Give me follow-through any time. That's what Mary Kay looked for, and what she got. You look for the right type of person and you'll get them. Someone that is a finisher is definitely one of the most valued people we could have in a business.
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