I don't know which came first, the sheltered/ignorant white crowd or the black opener with way too high a swagger-to-talent ratio, but both need to stop.
By Russell Platt None of the great composers had a more unfortunate talent-to-luck ratio than Franz Schubert.
Velvet Revolver's gifted lead singer, Scott Weiland, started his rock career with Stone Temple Pilots, while the lead guitarist Slash, who enjoys what is possibly the sweetest talent-to-success ratio in popular music, is formerly of Guns 'n' Roses.
But music, the relatively… Until the crisis of modernism blew up the bridge that connected classical music and middle-class taste, a composer was expected to have a modicum of… None of the great composers had a more unfortunate talent-to-luck ratio than Franz Schubert.
Despite the refreshing ratio of talent to swagger, the league still faces an uphill battle.
He echoed Grant on quotas, adding that appointments should be made according to talent and that while ratios may solve the problem short-term, they won't change mindsets and culture.
The most common ratio of the talent to the mina was probably 1 60.
Potential clients, however, have evidently been fearful: the ratio between raw talent and built work is wildly out of whack.
"His modesty is in inverse ratio to his talent, and to satisfy his own aesthetic aspirations is of infinitely greater importance," a magazine writer noted in a 1920s profile.
Fear of losing more talent has kept the brokers' compensation ratio at 60%, and the firm's overall ratio at an uncomfortably high 54%, well above Goldman's.
"I think that the amount of talent that was in Detroit, ratio-wise, is everywhere, every city, every place in the world," says Robinson, his face smooth and waxy and bright.
