Vlad,
The talent (a : a special often creative or artistic aptitude b : general intelligence or mental power) most in need of Management (planning, organizing, integrating and measuring) is the talent to see, feel and think systems. The inability to cope with systems, especially systems composed of people, is the largest deficiency in business, government and academia. Planning, organizing, integrating and measuring the talent that can deal effectively not only the highest leverage activity ahead of us. Further, the ability to think, feel and act systemically is fundamental to the management of all other talents.
Selecting, educating and nurtuing the systemist must become a key objective in the field of talent management. Today, I have not been able to find one single management development curricula that attends to the systemist.
If you so elect, I will be pleased to gather a chapter that reflects the consensus of a dozen or more demonstrated achievers in this aspect of talent management from throughout the International Society for the System Sciences, Society for Design and Process Science, International Society for Performance Improvement, and Systems Dynamics Society as well as the International Council on Systems Engineering where I lead the Intelligent Enterprises Working Group.
Jack Ring
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:51 AM
Subject: Book on Talent Management
Dear Colleagues,
I have been recently asked by a major publishing company to edit a book on talent management. So, as an exemplary scholar ;-), I would lke to start with some sort of market research and ask those of you working in this area to inform me about your possible interest in contributing. Please also feel free to share any ideas that you might have in regards to this upcoming book.
As a preliminary consideration, I am thinking of making this publication suitable to both academics involved in teaching, consulting, and executive education, and practitioners who want to use talent management techniques developed by leading scholars in this area of knowledge.
Looking forward to your reply,
Vlad Vaiman
FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences
Graz, Austria
Executive Editor
European Journal of International Management