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Excellence, News | 2 COMMENTS | January 12, 2011
In August of this year, The Energy Project CEO Tony Schwartz posted a blog on the Harvard Business Review called "Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything."  The response was stunning, demonstrating that it struck a chord with readers around the world. The post rose to number one on HBR's Most Read list, and remains there today, almost five months later.
Emily Pines

Excellence, Leadership, Mental Needs | 1 COMMENTS | November 9, 2010
In August, I posted a blog titled "Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything." Over the subsequent three months it has become one of HBR's most widely read blogs ever. The notion that we can be excellent at anything prompted passionate debate. On the one hand, it's empowering and inspiring to believe that excellence is within our reach in any area to which we devote ourselves with sufficient diligence — something the researcher Anders Ericsson calls "deliberate practice."
Tony Schwartz