Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Ellen, do you sense that many entrepreneurs are talented in one area, and love using their talents, but may not have the business savvy or connections to rise to the top?

Likewise, I feel bloggers love to write on what they know. Many appear to do that for pure enjoyment because of those 150 top bloggers polled in NYC, 51% indicated they didn't make anything. Thoughts?

Robyn, what you suggest would make a very interesting study. I think talent gets squashed at broken systems - and talent rises up when people find ways to leverage their capabilities.

If the system was revised - more talent would be rewarded and less waste would occur.

Until then - it's encumbent upon people to optimise their talents, navigate broken systems, and earn a decent wage - at the same time.

Yikes - that's a lot to expect from an ordinary workday! What do you think?

Here's a few more insights. While someone might be very talented as a chef and have a great idea for a restaurant, they might not have the logical-mathematical smarts needed to take it to the place where it is a winner business wise. That is usually the glitch for many creative people.

Mack Collier and Tom Vanderwell brought up the fact that there are indirect benefits to blogging. Tom says that he gained two major clients through blogging and a lot of marketing. Mack said he had gained many new clients. I'm sure that these indirect benfits add much to those actual salaries listed there!

Thanks to you Robyn, and to Mack and Tom! That's also the ring I'll toss my own chips into on this one! Thanks for saying it so well -- I love the way you synthesize ideas Robyn! Cool!