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Shantanu Bhamare, PMP, MBA, LIMC Chief Information Officer (CIO)| Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Pune, Maharashtra, India
How Talent is defined ?
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Leandro Palumbo Project Controls Director, EC| AECOM Madrid, Spain
Talent is the special ability that allows someone to do something well, but It is important to remember Honore de Balzac''s quote: There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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ADEL HIBA Maintenance Projects Engineer| Sarir Oil Operations B.V / Wintershall Dea Bonn, Germany
Talent is a great knowledge which lead to competence on implementing this knowledge and showing the ability to share this competence with others. This competence with out sharing there will be no Talent.
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Makrand Satarkar Director of PM/PMO| Capgemini Pune, Maharashtra, India
Talent is combination of professional competencies & skills that one posses. For performing every role you need Talent. You can enhance it by self learning & training
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LIH WANG PM I APM| Siemens Rail Automation Systems Ltd. Taiwan Office T'Ai-Pei, Taiwan
According to Cambridge Dictionary, talent is a natural ability to be good at something, especially without being taught. When we say PMP talents, it means people who are good PMP practioners.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Talents are usually understood to be gifts. For example, the Bible has references to talents being money given to individuals.

As I have grown older (wiser?), I have come to realize that talents are not gifts in the true sense of the word. In other words, you are not born with talents. Rather, you are born into an environment that facilitated your acquisition of the talents.

Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" is a great book to show that talents are made, not gifted. Toastmasters International's slogan is "Where leaders are made".
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Dec 30, 2015 12:59 PM
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I love the outliers book, although there is some disagreement over the 10000 hour principle.

But wise words indeed, environmental factors have a huge impact on us as individuals.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
General speaking talent is not important. What is important is the work each person do to discover their talent and to developt and growth their talent.
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Kenneth Ashe Blockchain Project Manager| On Chain Fanwood, Nj, United States
Talent = ability. Talent is important, but how that talent is applied can be the difference between failure and success.
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 23, 2015 10:21 AM
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Talents are usually understood to be gifts. For example, the Bible has references to talents being money given to individuals.

As I have grown older (wiser?), I have come to realize that talents are not gifts in the true sense of the word. In other words, you are not born with talents. Rather, you are born into an environment that facilitated your acquisition of the talents.

Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" is a great book to show that talents are made, not gifted. Toastmasters International's slogan is "Where leaders are made".
I love the outliers book, although there is some disagreement over the 10000 hour principle.

But wise words indeed, environmental factors have a huge impact on us as individuals.

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