WHEN IS TALENT ALONE ENOUGH?
1. Malcolm Gladwell, “The Talent Myth,” New Yorker, 22 July 2002, http://www.gladwell.com/ 2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm.
2. Robert J. Kriegel and Louis Patler, If It Ain’t Broke ...Break It! (New York: Warner Books, 1991), 11.
CHAPTER 1
1. Mark Kriegel, Namath: A Biography (New York: Viking), 15.
2. Ibid., 13–14.
3. Ibid., 14.
4. Ibid., 47.
5. Ibid., 234.
6. Used with permission. Copyright 2004–5, Joel Garfinkle. All rights reserved. Dream Job Coaching, http://www.dreamjobcoaching.com/articles/court-martial.html.
7. Kriegel and Patler, If It Ain’t Broke . .. Break It!, 44.
8. Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 99.
9. Kriegel, Namath, 57.
10. From Walter D. Wintle, “The Man Who Thinks He Can,” Poems That Live Forever, comp. Hazel Felleman (New York: Doubleday, 1965), 310.
11. August 26, 1996: Christopher Reeve speaks at the Democratic National Convention,” Floor Speeches, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/convention96/floor_speeches/reeve.html, accessed 2 August 2006.
12. Harvey Mackay, “Be a Believer to be an Achiever,” Pioneer Thinking, http://www.pioneerthinking.com/achieve.html, accessed 2 August 2006.
13. Robert H. Schuller, Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do! (New York: Bantam, 1984), 204, emphasis added.
CHAPTER 2
1. Ana Figueroa, “Rueben Martinez: Barber and Book Lover,” AARP Segunda Juventud, April/May 2005, http://www.aarpsegundajuventud.org/english/nosotros/2005-AM/05AM_ bookshop.html.
2. “Life and Times” (transcript), KCET News, 11 November 2004, http://www.kcet.org/ lifeandtimes/archives/20041109.php.
3. Marco R. della Cava, “Barber Grooms Love of Books,” USA Today, 10 October 2004, http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-10-10-barber-genius-grant_x.htm.
4. Ibid.
5. Interview of Rueben Martinez by Brancaccio, NOW, 28 January 2005, http://www.pbs.org/ now/printable/transcriptNOW104_full_print.html.
6. Figueroa, “Rueben Martinez: Barber and Book Lover.”
7. Http://www.humanmedia.org/program_martinez.php3.
8. “Life and Times,” KCET News.
9. Della Cava, “Barber Grooms Love of Books.”
10. Tara Burghart, “MacArthur ‘Genius Grants’ Awarded,” Seattle Times, 28 September 2004, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002048058_genius28.html.
11. Figueroa, “Rueben Martinez: Barber and Book Lover.”
12. Kriegel and Patler, If It Ain’t Broke . .. Break It!, 259.
13. Richard Edler, If IKnew Then What I Know Now: CEOs and Other Smart Executives Share Wisdom They Wish They’d Been Told 25 Years Ago (New York: Berkley 1995), 185.
CHAPTER 3
1. “Northridge Earthquake,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_ Earthquake.
2. “Lessons for Post-Katrina Reconstruction: A High-Road vs. Low-Road Recovery,” 6 October 2005, Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper #166, 2, http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp166.
3. Ibid.
4. “Past Projects: Santa Monica I-10 Freeway,” C. C. Myers, Inc., http://www.ccmyers.com/ completedprojects.cfm?ID=8.
5. “Lessons for Post-Katrina Reconstruction,” 4.
6. “Les Brown,” http://www.lesbrown.com/about_les.htm, accessed 2 August 2006.
7. Proverbs 6:6–11 The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary English, by Eugene H. Peterson. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000.
8. http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Quotes/L.html, accessed 2 August 2006.
9. Edgar A. Guest, “To-morrow,” A Heap O’ Livin’ (Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1916).
CHAPTER 4
1. Donald E. Demaray, Laughter, Joy, and Healing (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1986), 34–35.
CHAPTER 5
1. Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1996), 68.
2. Ibid., 27.
3. Ibid., 76 (emphasis added).
4. Ibid., 59.
5. Richard Dillon, Meriwether Lewis: A Biography (New York: Coward-McCann, 1965), 30.
6. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, 77.
7. List was created using information from Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, pages 87–92.
8. Ibid., 126.
9. Ibid., 114.
10. James P. Ronda, “Lewis and Clark Expedition,” Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2005, http://encarta.msn.com.
11. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, 14.
12. Don Beveridge Jr. and Jeffrey P. Davidson, The Achievement Challenge: How to Be a10 in Business (Homewood, IL: Irwin Professional, 1987).
13. The New American Standard Bible ®, Copyright © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org).
14. Kahleen M. Gisenhardt, “Making Fast Strategic Decisions in High-Velocity Environments,” Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sept. 1989), 543–76.
CHAPTER 6
1. Fred Kaplan, Dickens: ABiography (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 50.
2. Ibid., 59.
3. Ibid., 58.
4. Ibid., 62.
5. Jane Smiley, Charles Dickens (New York: Lipper/Viking, 2002), 26.
6. Kaplan, Dickens, 60.
7. Ibid., 64.
8. Smiley, Charles Dickens, 3.
9. Ibid., 16.
10. Reader’s Digest, January 1992, 91.
11. Jon Johnston, Christian Excellence (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1985), 30.
CHAPTER 7
1. Vonetta Flowers with W. Terry Whalin, Running on Ice: The Overcoming Faith of Vonetta Flowers (Birmingham, AL: New Hope Publishers, 2005), 25.
2. “Tom Hanks,” Box Office Mojo, http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor &id=tomhanks.htm, accessed 8 May 2006.
3. “Tom Hanks Earns His $25 Million Salary, but Not Jim Carrey,” 6 May 2006, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060506/1/40lm9.html, accessed 8 May 2006.
4. Adapted from Max Isaacson, How to Conquer the Fear of Public Speaking and Other Coronary Threats (Rockville Centre, NY: Farnsworth Publishing, 1984), 77.
5. Howard Goodman, “I Don’t Regret a Mile,” used by permission /Rick Goodman, Goodman and Associates, P.O. Box 158778, Nashville, TN 37215.
6. “One List,” Houston Chronicle, 1 January 2001, 2D, http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/ archive.mpl?id=2001_3270661, accessed 10 May 2006.
7. George E. Vaillant, Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2003), 285.
8. Bruce Nash, The Football Hall of Shame (New York: Pocket Books, 1991), 21–22.
CHAPTER 8
1. Winston S. Churchill, “Reflections at Century’s End: Man of the Millennium?” The Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=818, accessed 17 May 2006.
2. “10 Facts About Churchill,” Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, http://churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00i002, accessed 17 May 2006.
3. Douglas S. Russell, “Lt. Churchill, 4th Queen’s Own Hussars” (lecture), Boston, 28 October 1995, The Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=638, accessed 17 May 2006.
4. “Malakand Field Force,” The Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/ index.cfm?pageid=176, accessed 2 August 2006.
5. “Churchill, 4th Queen’s Own Hussars,” The Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/ i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=638, accessed 2 August 2006.
6. Churchill, “Reflections.”
7. John C. Maxwell, Winning with People: Discover the People Principles That Work for You Every Time (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004), 221.
8. Pat Williams, American Scandal: The Solution for the Crisis of Character (Shippensburgh, PA: Treasure House, 2003), 290.
CHAPTER 9
1. Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists, trans. Peter Bondanella (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 284.
2. “The Moon and the Sky,” American Museum of Natural History, http://www.amnh.org/ exhibitions/codex/astronom.html, accessed 30 May 2006.
3. “Bill and Melinda Gates Bring Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester to Life,” http://www. microsoft.com/BillGates/news/codex.asp, accessed 29 May 2006.
4. Emily Morison Beck, ed., Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1980), 152.
5. Philip B. Crosby, Quality Is Free (New York: Penguin, 1980), 68.
6. J. Konrad Hole, Diamonds for Daily Living (World Press, 1996).
7. Proverbs 26:12, New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
8. Eric W. Johnson, ed., A Treasury of Humor (New York: Ivy Books, 1990), 304.
9. Anonymous.
10. Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura, The Laws of Lifetime Growth: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past (San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006), 17.
11. Anonymous.
CHAPTER 10
1. “Dr. Hwang Woo Suk,” Time, http://www.time.com/time/asia/2004/personoftheyear/people/ hwang_woo_suk.html, accessed 3 June 2006.
2. “Hwang Woo-Suk,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-Suk, accessed 3 June 2006.
3. Ibid.
4. “10 Questions for Dr. Hwang Woo Suk,” Time, 5 December 2005, http://www.time.com/ time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501051212-1137709,00.html, accessed 3 June 2006.
5. Nicholas Wade and Choe Sang-Hun, “Researcher Faked Evidence of Human Cloning, Koreans Report,” New York Times, 10 January 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/ 10clone.html, accessed 3 June 2006.
6. Steven Ertelt, “Hwang Woo-Suk Apologizes for Faking Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” Lifenews.com, 11 January 2006, http://www.lifenews.com/bio1274.html, accessed 3 June 2006.
7. “Disgraced Korean Cloning Scientist Indicted,” New York Times, 12 May 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/world/asia/12korea.html, accessed 3 June 2006.
8. Stan Mooneyham, Dancing on the Strait and Narrow (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989), 1–2, 68.
9. “Bobby Jones (golfer),” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jones_%28golfer%29, accessed 6 June 2006.
10. Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), 21.
11. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (New York: Signet, 1998), 88.
12. Laura L. Nash, Good Intentions Aside: A Manager’s Guide to Resolving Ethical Problems (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993), 125.
CHAPTER 11
1. Dan Haseltine, “Foreword,” in Dave Urbanski’s The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash (Lake Mary, FL: Relevant Books, 2003), xiv.
2. Urbanski, The Man, 50.
3. Ibid., 51.
4. Ibid., 53–54.
5. Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr, Cash: The Autobiography (New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1997), 229.
6. Ibid., 232.
7. “Tribute to June by Rosanne Cash,” http://www.johnnycash.com/june/may18.html, accessed 13 June 2006.
8. Cash, Autobiography, 314.
9. Les Parrott, High Maintenance Relationships (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1997).
10. Anonymous.
11. http://home.comcast.net/~b.learn/bob.htm, accessed 13 June 2006.
CHAPTER 12
1. Http://www.climber.org/data/decimal.html.
2. Http://www.supertopo.com/rockclimbing/route.html?r=loeabear.
3. Andrew Todhunter, Fall of the Phantom Lord: Climbing and the Face of Fear (New York: Anchor Books, 1998), 44.
4. Craig Vetter, “Terminal Velocity,” Outside, April 1999, http://outside.away.com/magazine/ 0499/9904terminal.html, accessed 14 June 2006.
5. Ibid.
6. Todhunter, Fall, 43.
7. Ibid., 78.
8. Tony Campolo, The Covenant Companion, April 1998.
9. Business Ethics, November/December 1996.
10. Williams, American Scandal, 174–75.
11. Rudolph W. Giuliani with Ken Kurson, Leadership (New York:Hyperion, 2002), 69–70.
12. Speech to Massachusetts legislature (9 January 1961), quoted on www.mass.gov/statehouse /jfk_speech.htm, accessed 4 August 2006.
CHAPTER 13
1. Lt. Commander Smith’s description was so complex and detailed that I asked him to e-mail it to me so that I could describe it accurately in this book.
2. Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil, ICan’t Accept Not Trying (San Francisco: Harper, 1994).
3. “U2,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2, accessed 21 June 2006.
4. Josh Tyrangiel, “The Constant Charmer,” Time, 26 December–2 January 2006, 50.
5. Michka Assayas, Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 151.
6. Ibid., 152.
THE LAST WORD ON TALENT
1. “Worldwide ‘Talent Shortage’ Seen by Employers,” Money, 21 February 2006, http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/21/news/international/jobs_manpower.reut/index.htm.