It isn’t just athletes who fail to live up to their early potential--if you are a “high draft choice” in life, you have responsibility to focus your gifts. Here are some tips on doing just that, from Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins Caulfied & Byers.
One of my pleasures is watching and helping younger people develop from high potentials into young leaders. Former NHL hockey player and Wayne Gretzky's one-time roommate Geoff Courtnall once told me that the formula for winning the Stanley Cup was an equal measure of veterans who deliver and emerging rookies who overachieve. I believe that most healthy organizations, like hockey teams, need the excitement and energy of youth.
In ice hockey, as in life, hall of fame careers usually start fast. Wayne Gretzky was the NHL MVP at age 19, and Bill Gates, the Gretzky of software, founded Microsoft at age 20. If you are a “high draft choice” in life, you have some responsibility to focus your gifts. It isn’t just athletes who fail to live up to their early potential.
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