"The Grandmaster in the Corner Office"

Between tax season and a couple chess projects I'm working on, I might not be blogging too much in the next few days.

In the course of researching one of the chess projects, I came across this blog entry on deliberate practice (a buzzword among business gurus and chess trainers).  How do experts become expert at the thing they do? And why aren't we experts? I think I've previously recommended Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers as a fun read.

For the pedantic, K. Anders Ericsson's famous paper is available here (hosted on the Freakonomics blog).

Back to work!

"The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance"

What's the best way to improve at chess?  This famous study doesn't offer any easy answers, but it does suggest a road to mastery.

A popularization of this study is the basis of one chapter in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success (which you really should read even if you don't particularly care for chess!).