When Talent is Not Enough

What's Wrong with Google, and the Reverse Imposter Syndrome

Everyone’s piling on Google lately. If I’m not too late to the party, I want to tell you something more.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article over 20 years ago about the consulting company McKinsey and their fixation on “talent.” It’s become corporate gospel, despite the disastrous failure of Enron, which subscribed to it wholeheartedly. Sundar Pichai, CEO …