Conversely, outstanding social skills can help an average performer climb the corporate ladder with great speed.
The most talented increasingly get a multiple of the salary of the average performer.
If he was just an average performer or a typical IT guy then his employer may not have gone to such lengths to help him recover from his addiction.
If observers believe that the lack of a voluntary report indicates that a firm is a below-average performer on some metric, then any firm that is above average will have an incentive to report.
The average high performer on our list has been expanding earnings at 28% a year and returning 20% annualized gains to shareholders over the past five years.
Their latest report shows that these top performers are actually less likely than average to continue being a top performer.
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As Bloomberg points out, BofA is the best performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 2012, doubling since the start of the year.
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The Dow Jones industrial average, which counted BofA as its best performer in 2012, was up 236 points, or 1.8% to 13, 340 in morning trading.
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In fact, IBM has gained 29% this year making it the best performer of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while most its major competitors, including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, have negative returns year-to-date.
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AMD, which warned of a decline in second-quarter sales, dove 11.2% and dragged much of the tech sector along with it, as fellow chipmaker Intel slumped 2.3% to be the third-worst performer in the Dow Jones industrial average.
In the tech world, it is widely known that a star performer is not just 50 percent more productive than an average person, but two or three times more productive.
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For more than 25 years, her newsletter has been a top performer among letters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, turning in a 17.6% average annualized gain since 1995, and an 8.6 average annual gain since 2000 (compared with the Wilshire 5000's average annual loss over the past five years of 2.03%).
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