In tough economic periods, young talent migrates away from financial engineering jobs and toward start-ups.
They are important economic and cultural centers that attract talent.
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For this can give people the power to create their own economic futures, to deploy their own talent and to harness their own resources.
Governments with the smartest policies will be the ones that secure the most investment, the strongest talent, and the best economic opportunities for their people.
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And maybe it still is, but, increasingly, being given the opportunity to demonstrate that talent depends on having the economic means to work cheap, which turns out to be very difficult to afford.
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Many fear that this talent drain will have lasting economic repercussions on the developing world, robbing it not only of the skills of these workers but also of their influence on the productivity of others.
If they rediscover their historical mission to lift people out of poverty and create economic opportunity, they will deserve the best talent.
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The result is that cash-rich software majors, options-rich startups and relationship-rich industry insiders have been sucking up all available quality talent among them, leaving other industries and economic sectors starving.
Diversity in leadership is the new normal to win the war on talent, create new revenue streams, solidify global economic impact and build leadership relevancy.
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Assembly Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies said for too long Welsh creative talent had left Wales, and he wanted to keep it in the country and profit from it.
Some fear a lack of talent could become one of the biggest impediments to future economic prosperity.
Voted the most admired company in the country by Economic Times and other Indian media, Infosys has no trouble attracting top talent.
Wasted talent is always a moral crime, but it is increasingly an economic crime too.
The 25-year economic boom of 1982 to 2007 was built at the intersection of capital and talent.
The potential is so great that this worldwide flowering of technical talent could well offer one solution to the world's current economic crisis.
Chris Lyttle of the Alliance Party said he believed that the programme would "provide a platform for the talent, enterprise and endeavour of our people to drive social and economic change in Northern Ireland".
The continuing acceleration in elite performance in the marathon may have more to do with the economic, sociological and demographic factors that are expanding distance-running's talent pool than it does about physiology or even training methods.
In fact, there are cogent arguments to be made that the level of U.S. corporate taxes is now uncompetitive across all of our industries, relative to most other developed or developing countries, and that our lack of a rational immigration policy is hastening the departure of talent from the U.S. to the benefit of our economic competitors.
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Even amid a worldwide economic downturn, companies find themselves in a fierce battle for customers as well as talent.
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FedEx founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.
FedEx ( FDX - news - people ) founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.
Specifically, he wants to use LinkedIn to create an "economic graph" that would show all the matches--and mismatches--between needed skills and available talent worldwide.
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