According to Chris Chabris of the Centre for Collective Intelligence at MIT, a member of the Knack team, games have huge advantages over traditional recruitment tools, such as personality tests, which can easily be outwitted by an astute candidate.

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These are men and women whose books regularly hit the top of the best seller lists and have a knack for making even the most difficult concepts seem accessible.

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The funds here tend to have the virtue of consistency coupled with a knack for logging impressive long-term results.

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They have a knack for injecting their worldview into the issue of the moment.

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While most of you would indeed likely get the knack of it pretty quickly, you'll no doubt have a significantly harder time actually getting your hands one of 'em.

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Love em or hate em, Gawker mini-mogul Nick Denton (soon, I hear, to be the subject of a long New Yorker profile) does have a knack of knowing what readers want and serving it up to them.

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She also has the knack of getting them to confide their stories, which they have hitherto hoarded like bread.

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Compared with their same-age peers, gifted children may have superior memories, a knack for creating original skits or the ability to concentrate intensely for long periods of time--to cite just a few characteristics of the children inventoried in the test.

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Hitherto, from the Rockefeller Centre to the Hollywood Hills, Japanese investors have shown an uncanny knack for losing serious money whenever they have bought a slice of America.

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