In the Past
At the beginning of the twentieth century the first
IQ test was born in Paris. Originally intended as a
means of helping children with special educational
needs, its ideas spread like wild fire across the
Atlantic and back to Europe, to the Far East and to the
South.
Unfortunately it scattered the seeds of some
corrosive thinking about the talent which is inherent in
human kind; that it is largely fixed and limited in its
scope.
More recently
In our complex and fast-changing world, we have begun
to realise that the way we talk about talent is
unhelpful. People refer to a “war for talent”, for
example, which is largely phoney.
We speak of “glass ceilings” beyond which certain
people cannot progress.
We make assumptions about the “gene pool” from which
we are emerging; that it is somehow finite or even
possibly diminishing.
Yet many of us know that it need not be like
this.
In the future
It is possible for organisations, and society as a
whole to take a very different view of talent.
At the Talent Foundation we want to find new ways of
unlocking human potential at work.
We believe that this can be achieved by finding
people who care passionately about developing people.
Working in collaboration, we think that research and
practical demonstration projects may help us create new
thinking and new doing.
We have a few tentative solutions and many
questions.
We hope that you will join us in finding more
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