I found the title interesting and couldn't help sharing a recent read. An article by Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point, Outliers) "The Talent Myth: Are Smart People Overrated" in his book What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures would shed some light on smarties.
It seems most of us believe that smart people (or kids if they are small) would always do well (not necessarily do good though). No wonder why the big corps, given their deep pockets, love to hire smart guys, such as grads from Harvard and other Ivy League universities. They pay way more to attract these grads and allow much room for them to explore and identify areas for business and corporate expansion.
Enron is a great believer in this and is one of the leading employers in terms of hiring Harvard grads. And now we all know what these smart guys had done and to where they had led Enron.
Anyway, Gladwell is famous for dissecting some of the conventional wisdom we have long held.
But the bad things done by some cannot overshadow the good that a majority of others have contributed to that big corp, which was once a very successful firm. There is nothing wrong with recruiting smart ppl from good schools. It's just sad that even smart ppl would be tempted to do wrong things.
Yes, graduating from good schools isn't equivalent to every success in life, but it does mean something.
原帖由 papa_pop 於 09-11-4 12:54 發表
I found the title interesting and couldn't help sharing a recent read. An article by Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point, Outliers) "The Talent Myth: Are Smart People Overrated" in his book What the Dog ...