E60 Unlocking Potential: The Art of Talent Development

Imagine: you get yourself a sweet new sports car, hop in for your first drive, only to realize you have no idea how to drive stick. So you drive around town in first gear, going super slow, making tons of noise, stalling out at every stop sign. You finally make it home, hop out and proclaim, “This car’s a piece of junk!”

Well, that’s the challenge we face with talent development, where the ceiling of your potential — or your team's potential — isn't dictated by innate ability, but by your capacity to unlock it.

So to help us learn to shift out of first gear, this episode, we’re joined by Adam Thompson. He’s the Vice Chair of Administration for the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center in Florida.

The three big questions we discuss with Adam are:

1. What is talent, and what are we talking about with “talent development?”
2. Why do people and teams fail to develop talent well?
3. What can we do to maximally develop our own talent, as well as that of everyone on the team?

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