At the very highest levels of skill, however, Beckham never was the complete player.
A world-recognised expert in expertise, K Anders Ericsson, argues that nobody develops the highest levels of skill in anything without 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
In recent years I have witnessed this trend rapidly accelerating, aided by low-cost technology, clients' growing acceptance that the highest levels of skill can reside in smaller firms, and the broad economy's embrace of nimble startups.
As I described last week, the last two decades have seen more British workers get higher levels of skills than ever before.
European countries, such as France and Denmark, recognise that looking after children is an extremely important job – and that attitude is reflected in higher levels of skills and pay.
One goal is to reduce high remediation rates at colleges and universities and help students compete for jobs that demand higher levels of skills than in previous generations.
,A country's development depends on its economic growth, and countries that foster high levels of skills in their population will thrive in the long term.
For our economy to stay competitive we'll need more people with higher levels of skills, so it's more important than ever that working people have the opportunity to retrain and up-skill".
We need nurses with extremely high levels of skills, especially in critical thinking and clinical judgment.
On the other hand, high levels of skills mismatch in groups of occupations may also influence the pace of job polarization, again abstracting from a supply response.
