Look around your workplace. Or your employee roster. Pick out the employees who you think are the best.

Then take a different look to find your hidden potential. Those are the people who don’t stand out right away, but they could lift a team, department or organization to the next level.

“I think of hidden potential as the capacity for growth. It’s invisible to you and maybe even invisible to the people around you,” said Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, professor at the Wharton School of Business, and author of Hidden Potential.

The best news: Your workplace is likely full of several, if not many, employees whose potential isn’t so obvious to them and those who work around them.

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