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Geoff Colvin

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Geoff Colvin is an American business journalist and longtime Fortune editor-at-large focused on leadership, economic change, high performance, and the future of work. He is best known for Talent Is Overrated and Humans Are Underrated, and for his CBS Radio commentary, delivered in more than 15,000 broadcasts reaching millions of listeners weekly.

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Geoff Colvin built his career from a combination of small-town origins and elite business education. Raised in Vermillion, South Dakota, he studied economics at Harvard and later earned an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. That academic path gave him the language of markets, incentives, and institutions, but his professional identity formed in journalism: over a long tenure at Fortune, now stretching into a fourth decade, he became one of the magazine’s most durable interpreters of leadership, globalization, corporate strategy, technology, and human performance. Public biographies also note his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. ((https://fortune.com/author/geoff-colvin/))

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Great performance is in our hands far more than most of us ever suspected
-Talent Is Overrated
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The scarce resource is no longer money. It’s human ability
-Talent Is Overrated
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Excellent companies are certain of their core
-The Upside of the Downturn
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College isn’t trade school
-What Future Leaders Need to Learn in College
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Happy talk never works
-Three Things Good Leaders Do in Bad Times
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Just because technology can do a job brilliantly doesn’t mean that it should
-Why Leaders Need to Know What Machines Can’t Do
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You actually accomplish less by pushing yourself too hard
-Take a Break For The Holidays
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We’re not living in ordinary economic times
-Listen up, biz leaders: It’s time to rethink everything

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"With clarity and precision, Geoff Colvin exposes one of the fundamental misconceptions of modern life"

Daniel H. Pink

"Geoff Colvin has written a fascinating study of great achievers from Mozart to Tiger Woods"

Donald Trump

"Geoff Colvin's fresh take on how to respond to the rise of brilliant machines is as wise as it is inspiring"

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"Geoff Colvin has done all of us a great service"

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"In Humans are Underrated, Geoff Colvin makes the case that there is no point trying to beat machines at their own game"

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"The core principle underlying Geoff Colvin's new book is that hard work pays"

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