ABSTRACT

In a recent issue of TheEconomist (2006), the argumentwas put straightforwardly: talent is the world’s most valuable commodity and it is getting ever harder to find. Can it be that a world populated by six billion people is suffering from a shortage of talent? How have we come to a point where a culture might think like this? What does such thinking signify? These are the three questions I will endeavour to answer in this chapter. The answers to these three questions involves an argument made in two parts.