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THE SECRET OF FINDING TALENT LOOK PAST YOUR OWN BIASES

I  do  not  know  what  talent  looks  like.  

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I  cannot  judge  talent  by  mere  appearances.  

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When  someone  walks  in  my  door,  I  try  VERY  hard  not  to  judge.  

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It  can  be  almost  impossible  to  be  objec?ve.  

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But  s?ll  I  try.  

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Last  week,  I  hired  an  ar?st  in  Hong  Kong.      Last  month,  an  entrepreneur  in  New  Zealand  hired  me.  

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They  both  could  be  robots,  for  all  I  know.  

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(my  new  client?)  

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A  guy  named  Dan  Jones  created  all  these  images.  I  have  never  met  him  either.  

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This  I  know  for  certain:  our  biases  are  our  worst  enemy.  

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We  each  have  many  blind  spots.  

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They  stop  us  from  using  the  strengths  of  people  who  don’t  look,  sound  or  act  like  us.  

We  view  life  with  goggles  ON.  

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We  are  so  stuck  in  our  beliefs  and  aRtudes,  WE  might  as  well  be  robots.  

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So  we  play  the  same  “movie”  again  and  again.  

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The  True  Reality  is  that  you  can  change  your  reality.  

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You  don’t  have  to  act  like  a  robot.  

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You  can  embrace  talent  in  many  forms.  

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You  can  stop  labeling  others.  

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You  can  be  the  glue  that  holds  great  people  and  possibili?es  together.  

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Get  unstuck.  

Bruce Kasanoff is a speaker and ghostwriter. His credo is, “Be generous and expert, trustworthy and clear, open-minded and adaptable, persistent and present.” Bruce speaks and writes about ways to bring out the talent in other people. He has spoken at numerous corporate events, at universities, and for many professional associations. Learn more at kasanoff.com. Employee engagement | customer engagement | Motivation | work-life balance | Training | Speaking