Book description
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.
The assumption that metrics comparing us…
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1 author picked The End of Average as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A few years ago at my son’s annual townhall in school, the principal outlined the school’s strategic game plan on a powerpoint presentation.
One of the slides that stayed with me projected a visual from the book The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness.
I went back and read the book, only to realize that it resonated deeply with how we in the corporate world today (not just in schools at the elementary, middle, or senior levels) are quick to pronounce verdicts: below average, average, exceeds expectations.
The book poses some pertinent questions, and…
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