Identifying
SuperAttainers
The
SuperAttainment Research Center is funding a multi-year
study of high achieving individuals across a great variety of
fields and geographies. The purpose is to determine key attributes
indicating an propensity toward superior achievement that can be
recognized by most people with experience managing other people.
The work is ongoing and is being expanded continuously.
The
SuperAttainment Research Center is an initiative to help
people in management positions identify high potential leaders and
channel them toward meaningful contributions to their
organizations and to society at large.
The
8 attributes of SuperAttainers listed below are considered some of
the most common and easiest to identify when accompanied by other
aspects of career success.
8
Attributes of
SuperAttainers
1.
Early Success
The
Early Bird Gets the Worm…and Everything Else
SuperAttainers usually begin doing amazing things early in their
life. In fields like music and sport, it has long been understood
that for a child to have a chance at greatness, he needs to begin
around age 3 and then work at it for many years. In business and
politics, unusual ability is also recognized early in a
SuperAttainer’s career and is followed with many years of
continued achievement. In the greatness game, it is the rabbit who
wins the race -- as long as he persists like the tortoise.
2.
Contrarian
When
in Rome, Don’t Do As the Romans
SuperAttainers generally think of themselves as different and
apart from other people. They can often be described as rebellious
and disobedient by those who try to rule over them and are never
willing crowd followers. Tremendous success seems to require doing
things tremendously different. Doing things a little better will
yield results that are only a little better than others and this
is not what SuperAttainers are interested in.
3. Conceited
The
Pride Before The Rise
In order for someone to be thought of as great in the minds of
others, he must first be thought of as great in his own mind. The
tremendous achievements of SuperAttainers seem to be merely a
realization in the outer world of what is already in their inner
world. Predictably, it is uncommon for such people to be overly
shy about describing their abundant abilities. Many SuperAttainers
have come to recognize that being known as arrogant does not help
their purpose and they do a good job of appearing modest. However,
a bit of digging into their personality should uncover a deep
feeling of self-significance.
4.
Hard-Knocked
Nothing
Succeeds Like Suffering
SuperAttainers have often experienced traumatic periods when their
careers or even their lives were in great peril. It is during
these times that they gain a deep seated feeling of personal
vulnerability that can stay with them for the rest of their lives.
The advantage to the future SuperAttainer is that they become
consumed by the realization that they must accomplish all they can
while they have the chance because it can all come crashing down
at any time. It is a psychological condition that will drive
them to greatness for the rest of their lives.
5. Loner
One
is Company, Two is a Crowd
SuperAttainers are often described by others as dreamers,
outsiders, cold-hearted and similar labels often given to loners.
They are comfortable spending long periods in the company of
themselves to ponder, learn and envisage the future. Many develop
a love of solitary activities such as book-reading early in their
life. They are not usually enthusiastic participants in team
activities except when they are leading the group.
6. Mentored
& Motivated
Behind
Every Great Man are His Parents
Parents often
play the key role in the cultivation and realization of
SuperAttainers, spending immense amounts of time and money to give
their offspring the skills, experiences and relationships required
for immense amounts of success. They tutor baby SuperAttainers
from the crib, send them to the best schools and put them in touch
with the best mentors. It has been shown that mothers, in
particular, can play a strong role if they are supremely confident
in their son's innate abilities and then take devoted and
continuing action to develop them.
7.
Discontent
Patience
is No Virtue
SuperAttainers have an abnormally intense need for continuous
accomplishment. Success does not bring these people a sense of
inner peace. There is always someone else to overtake or a higher
target to aspire to. They are impatient, dissatisfied and edgy
when not engaged in activities that lead to the fulfillment of
their personal goals. They seem psychologically unstable in this
regard compared with most people.
8. Promoted
Self-Flattery Gets You Everywhere
There have been many great people who have lived and died in the
history of our species but nobody knows most of them because their
achievements were inadequately documented. In order to be thought
of as a great success by large numbers of people, someone needs to
be a great success at publicizing the SuperAttainer. In most
instances, it is the SuperAttainers themselves who are great
self-promoters. In other cases, another talented person takes on
the critically important role.
TWO
TYPES OF SUPERATTAINERS
1.
Aristocratic SuperAttainers
Pampered and pompous, these people excel despite having been given
it all. They grow up with all the best things, attend the best
schools and hobnob with the best minds. Because they are so deeply
bonded to a powerful and privileged elite, they are often
conservative and elitist. Real change seldom happens with these
people in charge. On the plus side, they are less likely to lead
themselves and their followers down paths of mutual destruction.
Examples of Aristocratic SuperAttainers include: Winston
Churchill, Peter the Great, Louis XIV and Frederick the Great.
2.
Come-From-
Nothing
SuperAttainers
Rags to riches, these people pull themselves up to greatness
through tremendous obstacles. Luck plays a role but most of their
success is due to relentless force of character. Since they come
from outside the establishment, they can be great agents of
change. Unfortunately, they are prone to crash and burning when
they inevitably overstretch themselves and their supporters.
Examples of Come-From-Nothing SuperAttainers include: Joseph
Stalin, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Mao
Zedong.
Rules
for Managers
Rules
for Self-Help
Rules
for Parents
Men
Vs. Women
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SuperAttainer:
Barack Obama
President
of USA:
Barack
Hussein Obama
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Barack Hussein Obama II (i /bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act in December 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act. In foreign policy, he gradually withdrew combat troops from Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered enforcement of the United Nations-sanctioned no-fly zone over Libya, and issued a direct order to a small group of American military forces to kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. In April 2011, Obama declared his intention to seek re-election in the 2012 presidential election
Basics:
Born: August 4, 1961 (age 49)
Died:
Nationality: American
Religion: Christian
Fields: Politics
Main Accomplishments: The first Black American President
Life
Story:
1959
Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., an outsadnding Kenyan student, is awarded scholarship from an American program offering Western educational opportunities. At the age of 23 Barack Obama Sr. leaves behind his pregnant Kenyan wife Kezia and their baby son and arrives in the United States to study math and economics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Barack Obama Sr. is the first African student in the university.
1961
February 2, 1961 - Barack Obama Sr., 25, marries 18 year old Ann Dunham, a white American student he meets in a Russian-language class only a few months earlier. The ceremony takes place at Maui. At the time of their wedding, Ann Dunham is already three months pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr., and she doesn't know Barack Obama Sr. has a wife and children in Kenya. Back in 1961 interracial marriage in the U.S. is rare and in some states illegal. The couple settles in Honolulu.
August 4, 1961 - Barack Obama Jr. is born at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Following Barack Obama Junior's birth, Ann Dunham drops out of college, completing only one semester.
1963
Barack Obama Sr. wins a scholarship to Harvard for graduate study. He moves to Boston, Massachusetts, leaving behind his 20 year old wife Ann and their 2 year old son, Barack Obama Jr. The relationship between Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham gradually deteriorates.
Ann returns to college. Her parents, Barack Obamas' grandparents, help take care of baby Barack Obama.
1964
Ann Dunham files for divorce from Barack Obama Sr.
After a while Ann Dunham falls in love with another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia, and the two start dating.
1965
Barack Obama Sr. completes his Masters degree at Harvard and goes back to Keyna with Ruth Nidesand, an American-born teacher he met. Ruth becomes his third wife. Barack Obama Sr. aspires to put his education to use in poverty stricken Kenya.
1967
Ann Dunham marries Lolo Soetoro. When Barack Obama, Jr., is 6 years old, the family moves to Jakarta, Indonesia, Lolo's hometown. In Indonesia Barack Obama becomes familiar with poverty, beggars, and children dying from illnesses. The house they live in has no stable electricity and the streets in their neighborhood are not paved. Ann gets a job as an English teacher at the American embassy. Barack Obama Jr. attends Franciscus Assisi Primary School, which is a Catholic school.
1969
Lolo Seotoro, Barack Obama's stepfather, is promoted in the American oil company he works for, and he relocates the family to a better neighborhood. Consequently, Barack Obama leaves the Catholic school and attends a public school closer to the family's new residence.
1970
Barack Obama's half sister Maya Soetoro is born. However, Ann Dunham's second marriage begins to disintegrate. She misses her home in the U.S. and wants her children to grow and be educated there.
1971
When Barack Obama is 10, his mother sends him back to Hawaii, to live with his white grandparents in their two bedroom apartment. With the help of Ann's parents, Barack Obama gets a scholarship to Punahou, a prestigious prep school in Honolulu. He's one of few black students at the school, and his classmates regard him as 'the black kid from Indonesia.' Barack Obama's separation from his mother has a tremendous impact on him.
1972
Ann Dunham returns from Indonesia to Hawaii with 2 years old Maya to join Barack, now 11. She leaves her husband, Lolo Soetoro, behind.
In Hawaii Ann Dunham pursues a master's degree in anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She and her two children live in a small apartment in Honolulu.
During this year Barack Obama's father arrives from Kenya for a short visit. During the visit, Barack Obama Sr. makes all kinds of statements about what Barack Junior should be doing. For Barack Obama, his father's presence is confusing and conceived as a disruption. Young Barack doesn't feel his father is entitled to make such statements. This visit is the last time Barack Obama sees his father.
1975
While in high school, Barack Obama joins the basketball team and becomes a leader in class. However, Barack doesn't feel he fits in. Barack tries to act tough so he drinks beer, smokes marijuana and tries cocaine.
1979
Barack Obama begins his first year at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He becomes friends with several black students, but still doesn't feel as one of them.
At the end of his sophomore year, Barack Obama transfers to Columbia University in New York. Obama becomes a disciplined student. He reads many books about race and social injustice.
1980
Ann Dunham files for divorce from her second husband, Lolo Seotoro.
1982
Barack Obama, now 21, receives notice about his father's untimely death. Barack Obama Sr. was involved in a car accident and died at the age of 46.
Barack Obama decides to pursue a career as a community organizer to confront the issues of race and poverty.
After graduation, Barack Obama takes a job with a Chicago based group called Developing Communities Project. Barack begins working to improve the conditions of a public housing project.
Barack Obama successfully carries out several projects, including school reform, hazardous waste cleanup and establishing a job training center.
Barack Obama applies and accepted to Harvard Law School. He takes student loans to pay his tuition.
1988
Barack Obama is now 26 years old. Before beginning his law studies, he decides to visit Kenya. He arrives in the village of Alego, situated on Lake Victoria, his father's hometown. He arrives there because he knows very little of his father. He wants to know who his father was, so he can understand his own identity. In Alego, Barack Obama meets his late father's family for the first time. He meets his grandmother and half siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews. The trip to Kenya helps Barack Obama realize the struggles that his father went through. It gives Barack a sense that the work he is doing is directly connected to his Kenyan family and their struggles. Barack Obama says: "[the visit] helped unify my outward self with my inward self in an important way."
Barack Obama begins his studies at Harvard Law School. At the end of his first year, a top law firm hires Obama as a summer intern in Chicago. There Barack Obama meets a young lawyer, Michelle Robinson, and the two start dating.
Barack Obama goes back to Harvard and keeps a long distance relationship with Michelle.
At the end of his second year, Barack Obama applies for the president of the Harvard Law Review.
1990
February 5, 1990 - Barack Obama becomes the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
1991
Barack Obama graduates from Harvard with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude.
Barack Obama signs with a publisher and begins to write an autobiography titled, Dreams from My Father. In this book Barack Obama discloses his past and personal struggles.
1992
Barack Obama returns to Chicago and joins his then girlfriend Michelle Robinson.
Barack Obama begins working at the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard as a junior lawyer, hoping to work on civil rights cases.
October 10, 1992 - Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson get married.
Barack Obama is teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
1992 is an election year. Barack Obama becomes the director of Illinois Project Vote, an organization focused on registering minority voters. Obama registers approximately 100,000 new voters, primarily in the African-American community.
1995
Barack Obama's memoire, Dreams from My Father, is published and receives warm reviews.
November 7, 1995 - Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, dies of ovarian cancer.
1996
Barack Obama runs for the Illinois State Senate. He wins the Democratic nomination for the seat, and is elected to the Illinois State Senate. Democrats are in the minority and therefore Barack time and again fails to pass his initiatives.
1998
Barack and Michelle Obama's first daughter is born. She is named Malia Ann.
Barack is rerelected to the Illinois Senate.
1999
Barack Obama runs for Congress. He rival is Rep. Bobby Rush, an experienced politician. During the campaign, a pivotal vote on gun control legislation is due in the State Senate. When the vote comes on the floor, Barack Obama is in Hawaii visiting his 18 months old daughter, Malia, who is ill. The gun control bill does not pass. Barack Obama takes a lot of political heat for not attending the vote and consequently loses the election by a 2 to 1 margin.
Barack Obama resumes his work at the Illinois State Senate and in the course of several years succeeds to pass some twenty pieces of legislation.
2001
Barack and Michelle's second daughter is born. She is named Natasha (and often called Sasha).
2002
Barack Obama is reelected to the Illinois Senate.
2003
Barack Obama becomes chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.
On January 2003, Barack Obama formally enters the race for the United States Senate. During the primaries, his Democratic rival, Blair Hull, takes the lead but after a short while drops it when domestic abuse allegations surface.
2004
Barack Obama wins the Illinois primaries with 53 percent of the vote. In the general election, Barack Obama faces Republican candidate Jack Ryan.
Jack Ryan's campaign is affected by sex scandal reports and Ryan is forced to quit the race.
The Illinois Republican Party drafts Alan Keyes, a former ambassador, to run against Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate, in place of Jack Ryan.
During the campaign, Alan Keys challenges Barack Obama's Christianity and Blackness.
July 7, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts: The Democratic National Convention –42 years old Barack Obama is chosen to deliver the keynote speech. This inspiring speech is viewed as a defining moment in Barack Obama's political career and it earns him a worldwide recognition.
November 2, 2004 - Barack Obama, 43, is elected for the U.S. Senate. The outcome of the race is unprecedented. Barack Obama receives 70% of the vote, while Republican Alan Keyes receives only 27%. Barack Obama is the nation's fifth African-American Senator.
Barack Obama takes an active role in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
2005
January 4, 2005 - Barack Obama is sworn as a U.S. senator.
Barack's first law is passed with Republican Tom Coburn. The law allows every American to go online and see exactly how tax dollars are spent.
2007
February 10, 2007 - Barack Obama announces his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
2008
June 3, 2008 - After defeating Senator Hillary Clinton in the primaries, Barack Obama becomes the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election.
November 3, 2008 - Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, age 86, dies of cancer, just one day before the Presidential Election.
November 5, 2008 - Barack Obama wins the US Presidential Election and becomes the first African-American President of the United States
SuperAttainer
ANALYSIS
SECTION:
1. Early Success
When
did the SuperAttainer first display ability that was greatly above average
and what were his accomplishments?
REFERENCES:
1.
2. Contrarian
What actions did the SuperAttainer take that demonstrated a mindset that was
very different from those around him?
REFERENCES:
1.
3. Conceited
What are the actions and documented statements that exhibit an elevated
sense of self importance of the SuperAttainer?
REFERENCES:
1.
4. Hard-Knocked
During what events did the SuperAttainer experience personal misery and
severe anxiety?
REFERENCES:
1.
5. Loner
Is there evidence of the SuperAttainer being comfortable spending time apart
from others?
REFERENCES:
1.
6. Mentored &
Motivated
Who was vital to developing the SuperAttainer and guiding his career and
what significant actions were taken?
REFERENCES:
1.
7. Discontent
What evidence is there that the SuperAttainer was unsatisfied with even
great personal accomplishment?
REFERENCES:
1.
8. Promoted
What actions or events were responsible for publicizing the tremendous
achievements and abilities of the SuperAttainer?
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1.
Overall
Score:
x
out of 8 = xx%
PASS
SuperAttainer
Type:
Describe
the factors in the SuperAttainer’s background to indicate whether he is a
Come-From-Nothing or Aristocratic type..
Conclusion:
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Consulting services throughout the emerging countries of the Asia
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