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DESIRE VERSUS ABILITY
I know that I would rather teach or coach a highly motivated person with little or no skill than a highly skilled person with little or no motivation.
The great professional speaker Larry Winget feels the same way.
The following passage is from his book It’s Called Work for a Reason.
When evaluating people and their performance, ask yourself these two things about the employee:
#1. Does the employee have the desire to do the job?
#2. Does the employee have the ability to do the job?
What you will find is that most of your employees have the ability to do the job. Fewer will have the desire.
I would almost always rather have someone who was a “ten” on desire but a “one” in terms of ability.
I can teach just about anyone to do almost anything – therefore ability has never been much of an issue with me.
If people have a sincere desire to do something, they can usually be taught to do it.
However, if someone has no desire, what difference does it make if she is great at doing something?
You can take a person with all the ability in the world, and if he has no desire to do the task, it’s just not going to get done.
