每日原则：概念思维能力强固然最佳，但经验丰富、业绩出众也很重要

工作岗位各种各样，需要不同的人。我经常有所偏见，要去找企业家类型的——聪明、思维开放、争强好胜，能找到最佳解决方案，结果却常常令我失望。相反，有时候，我发现在某个专长领域钻研数十年的有工匠精神的人，是完全可以信赖的。我想到马尔科姆·格拉德威尔法则，即要在某个领域花费一万小时，才能形成专长，以及通过观察棒球打击率来判断一个球员的击球水平。要看一个有天分的新手与已成名的明星相比表现会怎样，一个方法就是看他们相互较量的结果。

There are all sorts of jobs and they require all types of people to handle them. I am frequently biased toward finding the entrepreneur type--a clever, open-minded scrapper who will find the best solution--and I have often been disappointed. On the other hand, sometimes I have found a master craftsman who has devoted decades to his specialty who I could completely rely on. What keeps coming to my mind is Malcolm Gladwell's rule that it takes ten thousand hours of doing something to build expertise--and the value of looking at batting averages to judge how well a person can hit. One way you can tell how well a talented rookie will do relative to a proven star is to get them into a debate with each other and see how well they each hold up.