BEYOND SKILLS TALENT

INDIVIDUALS UNIQUE

BLUE DOT
Amongst billions of stars &
galaxies in the Universe, Earth is
unique
because
it
only
planet/star that appears as Blue
dot (71% earth surface is water).
Each of the 7 billion people on
plant earth has a unique DNA
code. Each individual is unique in

NASA: MISS PROGRAM -(Man in Space Soonest)

From almost every angle, the MISS program (Man in Space Soonest) was
a model of project execution Excellence: superior technology combined
with carefully selected and well trained employees, all focused on a
specific mission and buoyed by the hopes of a nation.
No wonder it succeeded .But look closer. When you examine the MISSMercury Program through a strictly managerial lens, you do not see a
picture-perfect project. You see six very different missions. And putting
aside for a moment the spectacular dimension of the endeavor and the
inspirational bravery of each astronaut, the quality of the performance
in each of the six missions can be comparatively ranked-two textbook,
two heroic, and two mediocre. Look closer still and you realize that, in
most instances, the individual astronauts themselves caused this
variation.
Alan Shepart and Wally Schirra, both career military men, executed their
duties perfectly: no drama, no surprises, text book missions.
John Glenn and Gordon Cooper were a little special. Glenn was the
heroes hero. Cooper was so laid-beck, he actually fell asleep on the
launch pad. But both of them faced severe mechanical difficulties and
then responded with cool heroism and technical brilliance - Cooper even
managed to achieve the most accurate splashdown of all, despite the
complete failure of his automatic reentry guidance systems.
The performances of Gus Grissom and Scott Carpenter were rather less
impressive. Grissom piloted a clean flight, but he appeared to panic
after his capsule splashed down. It seems he blew the escape hatch too
early, the capsule filled with water, and it sank to the sea floor sixteen

thousand feet below. NASA never recovered the three-thousand-pound

capsule.
Carpenter, meanwhile, was so excited to be up in space that while in
orbit he maneuvered his capsule this way and that until he had used up
almost all his fuel.
When it came time to reenter the earths
atmosphere, try and ended up splashing down 250 miles from his
designated landing sight. He was lucky. If he had been a couple of
degrees shallower in his approach, the capsule would have bounced off
the atmosphere and spun off into space for eternity.
NASA must have looked at the performance of their astronauts and
wondered, Why this range in performance? We selected for experience,
for intelligence, and for determination. They all had the same training
and the same tools. So why didnt they perform the same? Why did
Cooper excel while Carpenter struggled? Why did Glenn behave so
calmly and Grissom less so?
Same stimuli, vastly different reactions. Why? Because each man
filtered the world differently. Each mans mental filter sorted and sifted,
making one man actually aware of stimuli to which another was blind.
Bobbing in the water after splashdown, the dependable Wally Schirra
was so focused on doing it right that he stayed in the capsule for four
hours in order to complete ever step of his post flight routine. His
mental filter blocked out any twinges of claustrophobia. Gus Grist's
didnt. All indications are that barely five minutes after splashing down,
he felt the tiny little capsule closing in around him. His mental filter, no
longer able to dampen his growing panic, told him to get out, to escape,
now, now. The hatch blew.
TALENT (YOUR FILTER)
You have a filter, a characteristic way of responding to the worked
around you. We all do. Your filter tells you which stimuli to notice and
which to ignore; which to love and which to hate. It creates your innate
motivations-are you disciplined or laissez-faire, practical or strategic? It
forges your prevailing attitudes-are you optimistic or cynical, patterns of
thought, feeling, and behaviour. In effect, your filter is the source of
your talents.
Your filter is unique. It sorts through every stimulus and creates a world
that only you can see. This filter can account for the fact that the same
stimulus produces vastly different reactions in you from those in the
person next to you.

TALENT (YOUR FILTER)Talent > Willpower > Brainpower >

Experience>Skills
Talent Recurring patterns of thoughts feeling and behaviour that can be
effectively applied
to profits, productivity, customer retain and
employee retention, managing change, managing crisis etc.

THEORY OF TALENT
It is accepted now that each on of us has this organic computer in our
head (brain)and genetics helps us understand that some of these
computers work more effectively than others. This provides biological
(genetics engineering) basis for brain power (NATURE). Just as computer
need good software it is not enough to be born with potential. You have
to receive the software from your upbringing from schools, parents,
friends and society. (NURTURE).There is a continuous interaction from
the minute of conception go even before birth between NATURE AND
NURTURE.

CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF TALENT (YOUR UNIQUE FILTER)

Manage change

Business practices control

Self knowledge

Result orientation

Compelling vision

Manage diversity

Inspiration

Broad perspective

Strategic ability

Optimism

Risk taking

Calm under fire

Take charge

Interpersonal sensitive

BRAHMANIC WISDOM OF TALENT

We all are genetically coded (theory of nature) therefore most of the
script is already written hence

People dont change that much

Dont waste time trying to put in what was left out

Try to draw out what was left it

Thats hard enough

THOUGHTS TO PONDER-INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
The problem facing almost all leaders in the future will be how to
develop their organization is social architecture so that it actually
generates intellectual capital.
What leaders must learn to do is to develop a social architecture that
encourages incredibility talented people most of whom have big egos to
work together successfully and deploy their own creativity -WARREN
BENNIS (ORGANIZING GENIUS- SECRET OF CREATIVE COLLABARATION)