But the reality is that alpha barely exists today — at least alpha that is achieved through skill and not luck.
Barely 16 years later, Cecil Rhodes had become a towering figure in finance and mining, a transformation achieved through skill and courage, and, in no small measure, bribery and ruthlessness.He also managed during this time to spend nine terms as an undergraduate at Oxford, where he was not noted for brains, games, industry or anything else.
Above all, these improvements have been achieved through the skills and dedication of the finest cohort of teachers we have ever had in this country.
In a separate study from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, 81% of SMEs that expect to grow over the next few years, think that would be achieved through increasing skills in the workforce.
Hosted by Harvard psychologist and author Daniel Gilbert, the series aims to convince viewers that happiness can be achieved through coping skills that teach people to be more resilient.
"The council's move to a smaller, leaner workforce will be achieved through developing skills of existing staff, greater movement and flexibility of people around the organisation, restricting external recruitment and reductions in overall staff numbers through natural turnover", it said.
I thought it perverse that they should celebrate a bunch of privileged freeloaders born to lord it over them, but not a festival of superhuman excellence achieved through ambition and skill.
There are never enough resources to go round and value for money must be achieved through good organisational skills, efficiency, timemanagement and a drive to get things done.
Effective nursing instruction can be achieved through specific teaching skills and methods and the use of teaching aids such as slides, manuals, and videotapes.
Preventative or therapeutic interventions can then be concentrated on those who will benefit, sparing expense and side-effects for those who will not 15 For some, this is achieved through EBM and the skill of the practitioner.
They felt trapped in an ambivalent state between a desire for status achieved through biomedical knowledge, technical skill and adherence to routines, and their professional perception of good care, which included marginalised nursing perspectives.
