2. Companies went on a war for
talent
How was talent defined?
Sharp strategic thinking,
Emotional maturity,
Entrepreneurial instincts,
The ability to deliver results.
Amongst other things…
3. “Companies do not even know how to define “talent”, let alone how
to manage it. Some use it to mean people like Aldous Huxley’s alphas
in “Brave new world” — those at the top of the bell curve. Others
employ it as a synonym for the entire workforce, a definition so broad
as to be meaningless."
The battle for brainpower
Adrian Wooldridge
2006
4. We all know the story of Newton and
the apple but…
Even if Newton started thinking about
gravity in 1666, it took him years of
painstaking work before he understood
it. He filled entire vellum notebooks with
his scribbles and spent weeks recording
the exact movements of a pendulum (it
made, on average, 1,512 ticks per hour).
The discovery of gravity, in other words,
wasn’t a flash of insight – it required
decades of effort, which is one of the
reasons Newton didn’t publish his
theory until 1687, in the “Principia”.
Lehrer - August 2, 2009
5. Angela Duckworth
University of Pennsylvania
« Why are some people more
successfull than others? »
« Talent is the common answer »
« One characteristic emerged as a
significant predictor of succces… It
was GRIT »
« Many talented individuals do not
follow through their
commitments »
7. It is a passion for a particular
long-term goal or end state
coupled with a powerful
motivation to achieve this
objective
8.
9. Think of your best people, do they:
1) Get distracted by new ideas and
projects?
2) Get discouraged when they encounter
setbacks?
3) Finish what they started?
4) Maintain their focus on projects till
completion?
10. Define the
Needs
Analyse
the Market
Setup a
strategy
Prospect Negociate
Implement
contracts
Think of your Purchasing
process
Where is it that you need GRIT?
Other talent…?
