First Step Marketing

The first time I heard selecting for talent, was not from my boss. It was from my brother’s coach. Later, I found business managing works the same. Even my boss never told any of us, he was trying to pick up the talent employee. But the “worst” employee who often “invite” in his boss office and “arguing” the same thing his boss “interested”. If it is not the selecting results, what else?

Selecting for talent is the manager’s first and most important responsibility. If he fails to find people with the talents he needs, then everything else he does to help them grow will be as wasted as sunshine on barren ground.

“No matter how you total success in the coaching profession, it all comes down to a single factor—talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it.”

According to everything I have heard from great managers, the coach is right. But he is also a little humble. What made special manager so successful was not just the talents on his teams, but also his own ability to create the right kind of environment to allow those talents to flourish. After all, talent is only potential. This potential cannot be turned into performance in a vacuum. Great talents need great managers if they are to be turned into performance.

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