courses in school experience

McCall has a very different view of the “right stuff.”While Wolfe's fighter pilots may indeed have been the best of the best, McCall's theory gives a causal explanation of why. It wasn't because they were born with superior skills. Instead, it was because they had honed them along the way, by having experiences that taught them how to deal with setbacks or extreme stress in high-stakes situations.
The “right stuff”thinking lists skills that are correlated with success. It is, using the description of theory discussed earlier, looking to see whether job candidates have wings and feathers. McCall's schools of experience model asks whether they have actually flown,and if so, in what circumstances.This model helps identify whether, in an earlier assignment, someone has actually wrestled with a problem similar to the
one he will need to wrestle with now. In terms of the language of the capabilities from earlier, it is a search for process capabilities.
Unlike the“right stuff” model,McCall's thinking is not based on the idea that great leaders are born ready to go. Rather, their abilities are developed and shaped by experiences in life.A challenging job, a failure in leading a project an assignment in a new area of the company—all those things become “courses” in the school of experience.
The skills that leaders have—or lack-depend heavily on which “courses" so to speak,they have and have not taken along the way.
麦考尔对“天赋”有非常不同的看法，虽然沃尔夫的战斗机飞行员可能确实是精英中的精英，但麦考尔的理论对这个结果给出了解释。这并不是因为他们生来就有高超的技能。相反，这是因为他们在前进的道路上磨练了自己，经历教会他们如何在高风险的情况下应对挫折或极端压力。
“天赋”思维列出了与成功相关的技能。使用前面讨论过的理论来描述，就是在观察求职者是否有翅膀和羽毛。麦考尔的经验学校模板询问的是他们是否真的飞过，如果真的飞过的话，是在什么情况下。这个模板有助于确定某个人在之前的任务中，是否真的解决过类似
现在的问题。就是前面提的能力，它是对过程能力的探索。
与“天赋”模板不同，麦考尔的思想并不基于伟大的领导者生来就准备就绪的想法。相反，他们的能力是由生活中的经历发展和塑造而来。一份富有挑战性的工作，领导一个项目的失败，完成公司一个新领域的任务——所有这些都成为经验学校的“课程”。领导者拥有或缺乏这些技能，在很大程度上取决于他们在这个过程中上过或没上过那些“课程”。