Malcolm Gladwell The Talent Myth Summary

The article, “The Talent Myth,” by Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the connection between hiring, retaining, and disproportionately promoting employees based on their inherent talents or potential to succeed, an atmosphere which challenges societal norms of rewarding employees based on experience and performance. Not a fan of this myth, Gladwell claims an organization that supports this environment lacks tacit knowledge, promotes narcissism, and creates a decentralized organization system.
While the key notion behind the talent mindset calls for organizations to ceaselessly recruit talent from top tier schools, a “talent mythers” metric of success,
Gladwell argues that is not the case. Gladwell challenges this assumption by using a study that measures