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The Talent Advantage
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The Talent Advantage

by Stefan Stremersch
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 21m
English
Kogan Page
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01 What is innovation talent?

In this chapter, we delve into the foundations of innovation talent. We’ll uncover why talent isn’t merely an innate ability but a meta-competency that can be actively developed. Innovation talent allows organizations to transform human potential into performance. This journey begins with a fresh perspective on what talent truly means – and why developing it might be an organization’s strongest lever for future success.

Talent: knowledge, skills and attitudes

‘Talent’ linguistically traces back to Ancient Greece and Rome. It originally referred to a weight; then it became a weight of a precious metal; after which it turned from a coin to a term for money in a more general way. In Latin, it also gained the meaning ...

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