<\/a>We need all our people to be of strong mettle. Our “talents” need to be supported by a firm, yet flexible and tough, foundation of people who can be counted on to do what they say they will do, possess and acquire essential skills, and have the daring initiative that seeks the good of others first. Take care of the ground, keep it rich, well-watered and generally well-maintained, and you will find that native talents grow strong and thrive as they give joyous free rein to their fullest expression.<\/span><\/p>\nSo, consider it well. We all want and need talent. Be sure to grow the talents within yourself, and the talents in others which you desire, in the firm and rich soil that will support them and let them express themselves richly and wholly. Only then will your desired talents become really significant. Happy growing!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Say “Talent”, and what springs to mind? A cursory glance at the dictionary would seem to indicate the existence of some special ability or an enhanced capacity to perform excellently in a given field or fields. Other words which may come to mind are “rare”, “gifted”, “special”, and so forth. It has become fashionable to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6,11],"tags":[47,75,385,142,210,213,227,245],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/War-for-Talent1.jpg?fit=1000%2C868&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}