Increasingly our culture peddles the myth that with enough belief, determination, and perhaps even hard work, you can achieve anything you want.
Pfeffer's argument is that there's a crucial skill set that separates alphas like Steve Jobs and Google cofounder Larry Page from the omegas and that potentially matters more than I.Q., charisma, and even hard work.
And if they've done anything, they've encouraged us today to do even harder work to make progress and to help resolve the crises that we face".
And although senior dancers tour on planes and learn no more roles each year than the juniors, it is even harder work.
Brinkley's new book, "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Morrow), enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 11, and it's the product of even harder work than usual.
In any case, the new tensions can mean even harder work for employees who may have been hoping by now to ease into a 9-to-5 routine as the value of their stock options appreciated.
Now that the basic systems are in place, even harder work is beginning to turn what had been meant as a temporary setup into the bank's home for many months ahead.
Now the even harder work of community building kicks off in earnest — if it's to turn one phone into a whole new-wave open mobile movement.
I was temporarily relieved, but I knew that there'd be even harder work in the months and years ahead not just for me or for Amazon, but for the billion-dollar book industry.
Teachers and their unions hated rigid improvement requirements that punished even hard-working educators and their schools, as well as Obama administration rules that forced states to use standardized test scores as a major factor in measuring a teacher's worth if they wanted to win a waiver from the law (California refused to go along with that, and remained under the law's thumb).
