Whenever we judge the potential of ourselves or others based on skills, we are making a mistake. It’s a bit like judging the performance of a car based on how it looks, versus how it performs in ...

The definition of talent is a natural ability someone is born with, like a perfect pitch in music or a creative mind. Skill is an ability that comes from practice, something you can learn like ...

In my time at McKinsey, one of the associate partners once said, “Our client may have the knowledge, but we have the skill — specifically, the problem-solving skill — to overcome the knowledge barrier ...