Geoffrey Colvin is the author of Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will (ISBN 1857886380); Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (ISBN 9781591842248); and The Upside of the Downturn: Management Strategies for Difficult Times.
Colvin obtained a degree in economics from Harvard and received his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.
[citation needed] The thesis of Talent is Overrated is that the greatest achievers succeed through lifelong "deliberate practice."
"Some 40 years of research show that specific, innate gifts are not necessary for great performance.
With Karen Gibbs, Colvin was co-anchor of Wall Street Week with Fortune on PBS for three years, successor of Louis Rukeyser.