This document discusses the importance of a growth mindset over a fixed mindset. It provides examples of how talented individuals like Mozart required years of practice to master their craft, contradicting the idea of innate talent. Companies that worship talent over effort, like Enron, can fail when problems emerge. The document advocates cultivating basic qualities through effort rather than believing them to be fixed. It also provides guidance for establishing competency standards and qualifications for organizations that desire explicit competency requirements.

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UNFC Competency Framework
Promoting a growth mindset
Hari Tulsidas
United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe

2. Born talented?
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart laboured for more
than ten years until he
produced any work that
we admire today.

3. 10,000-Hour Rule
The key to success in any
field is practicing 20 hours a
week for 10 years.

4. Enron bankruptcy
• Enron created a culture
that worshiped talent,
thereby forcing its
employees to look and act
extraordinarily talented.
• “This ‘talent mindset’ is
the new orthodoxy of
American management.” -
Malcolm Gladwell

5. Mindset
• Fixed mindset - Believing
that your qualities are
carved in stone
• Growth mindset - Belief
that your basic qualities
are things you can
cultivate through your
efforts.

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UNFC Competent Person Guidance
Why this guidance?
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This guidance note is provided for
organizations or entities such as
national governments, financial
institutions and companies, who may
wish to establish appropriate quality
assurance mechanisms, qualification
criteria and/or disclosure obligations
that can be adopted in circumstances
where explicit mandatory competency
requirements are considered desirable.

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Hari Tulsidas
harikrishnan.tulsidas@un.org
UNECE
05 I 10 I 2017, Cairo
Thank you!