The Importance of
Talent Management
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Every day you are juggling. In fact, juggling could be a
metaphor for modern business. Another way to describe this is multi-
tasking. You know what that means—doing more than one thing at
a time. It means, for instance, talking on the phone while also writ-
ing an e-mail. Today, successful managers are master jugglers who
know how to multitask to increase their daily output to two or
three times that of the average person. If you are really good at it,
juggling is so interwoven into what you do that you hardly even
think about it.
Juggling is a good metaphor for the activities required to man-
age and develop talent. ...