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The Potential for Potential

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Rob Silzer  and
Allan H. Church
Rob Silzer*
Affiliation:
HR Assessment & Development and Baruch/CUNY
Allan H. Church
Affiliation:
PepsiCo
*
E-mail: robsilzer@prodigy.net, Address: HR Assessment & Development, 14 West 11th St. NY, NY, 10011
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Abstract

It is very encouraging to see the stimulating commentaries in response to our article on identifying potential. These essays and the numerous recent published articles and conference presentations on potential reflect the widespread interest, as well as the challenges, of managing high-potential individuals in organizations. Based on our experience, and apparently also on the experience of commentary authors, many organizations and consulting firms are giving significant attention to this component of strategy-driven talent management (see also Oliver, Church, Lewis, & Desrosiers, 2009; Silzer & Church, in press; Silzer & Dowell, in press). Based on their insightful comments, it is clear that many of the commentary authors have been thinking about and working in the area of potential for a while.

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Information
Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 446 - 452
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Footnotes

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HR Assessment & Development, Inc. and Baruch College, CUNY

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