talent stack

English

Noun

talent stack (plural talent stacks)

1. The sum of a person's skills or talents.
   • 2016 December 29, James Altucher, “How to use mass persuasion techniques to become president of the united states”, in Your Story:

     Trump has one of the best talent stacks I’ve ever seen. He’s not the smartest guy in the room, but he’s pretty good at public speaking, business smarts, humor, hiring and firing, politics, etc.

   • 2017 February 11, Joseph Hirsch, “Thurman-Garcia: The Talent Stack”, in Boxing News 24:

     The best way to understand why Danny Garcia is so good is to think of him and his skillset in terms of the talent stack.

   • 2017, Barbara Oakley, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, →ISBN:

     It isn't that Adams is a virtuoso of many talents. It's that he has a combination of many often mediocre abilities that combine to create a formidable talent stack.

   • 2018 February 26, Sriram Sharma, “The great rush to data sciences in India”, in Factor Daily:

     His aim: add data science skills to his talent stack to be more versatile in his work and target job opportunities better.

Usage notes

This term is used to imply that a combination of talents or skills that are of reasonable level can be better than a single very strong talent.