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Geoffrey Colvin is the author of Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (ISBN 9781591842248), co-author of Angel Customers and Demon Customers (ISBN 9781591840077), and a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune Magazine.

The thesis of Talent is Overrated is that the greatest achievers succeed through endless "deliberate practice." Colvin characterizes it as "Hitting an eight-iron 300 times with a goal of leaving the ball within 20 feet of the pin 80 percent of the time, continually observing results and making appropriate adjustments, and doing that for hours every day - that's deliberate practice." .

With Karen Gibbs, Colvin was co-anchor of Wall $treet Week with Fortune on PBS for three years, successor of Louis Rukeyser. He has a daily report "On Business" heard on the CBS Radio Network, where he has made more than 8,000 broadcasts.

Colvin is the brother of singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin.
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Total Books: 4
2006 - Angel Customers Demon Customers [revised edition] (Hardcover)
Killer Customers Tell the Good from the Bad and Crush Your Competitors
2004 - Killer Customers Tell the Good From the Bad and Crush Your Competitors (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781591840428
ISBN-10: 1591840422
Genre: Business & Money
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Angel Customers and Demon Customers Discover Which is Which and TurboCharge Your Stock
2003 - Angel Customers and Demon Customers Discover Which Is Which and Turbocharge Your Stock (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781591840077
ISBN-10: 1591840074
Genre: Business & Money
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The effective elementary classroom Managing for success
The Effective Elementary Classroom Managing for Success (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781570350443
ISBN-10: 1570350442
Genre: Nonfiction
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