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Environment Multiplies Ability

A framework for understanding why the right place, network, culture, and moment can transform the value of an existing ability.

Overview

Environment Multiplies Ability helps you see what is shaping the outcome beneath the surface.

A framework for understanding why the right place, network, culture, and moment can transform the value of an existing ability.

Environment Multiplies Ability helps you see what is shaping the outcome beneath the surface.

The elements

  1. 1

    Ability

    The underlying skill or way of thinking.

  2. 2

    Context

    The market, organization, city, or community in which it is applied.

  3. 3

    Recognition

    Whether people can understand and value the contribution.

  4. 4

    Timing

    The historical moment that changes demand for a skill.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Describe your abilities as combinations rather than job titles.

  2. 2

    Compare the environments where that combination is understood.

  3. 3

    Change the room, market, or collaborators before concluding the ability is inadequate.

Common pitfalls

  • Blaming the environment for every personal limitation.
  • Assuming relocation alone creates value.
  • Confusing a fashionable market with a suitable one.

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