Backed by the proper application of training and practice, talent can become a useful, profitable skill; without training and practice, talent is unmet potential.

Digital is the age of people, people are always the most valuable human asset and capital investment in any business, but often the weakest link in Digital Transformation as well. The static and often “one size fits all” traditional talent management and performance management have obvious weak spots to manage increasingly dynamic digital workforce today. It's a strategic imperative for top business leaders and talent managers to see talent from different angles, ask insightful questions to understand talented people profoundly.

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Inherence In recent years, creativity has become a very highly valued skill, and many think it is the #1 wanted professional capability in the digital era. Creativity is innate with many special ingredients; and creativity can be developed if the conditions are right and there is love, inspiration, encouragement, and permission, Creative people combine existing possibilities to reach more often unexpected solutions. Creativity can be abundant. Creativity is a long-term endeavor. It must be unlocked to maximize its potential.

Uniqueness Talent is an innate, or natural ability to do something well. So it has to be identified as distinct from a skill, which is acquired by learning and practice. Talent is something deeper that empowers or boosts skills, but how to identify it, acquire it, improve it, or stimulate it? Talent is like DNA: DNA defines what you could be; not what you will be. Someone once said, "Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” Backed by the proper application of training and practice, talent can become a useful, profitable skill; without training and practice, talent is unmet potential.

Innate Character is a human's blueprint, like the seed-with the uniqueness and color theme. Character the mirror of -your soul, consciousness, subconsciousness, super consciousness; and an innate self.

Ingenuity Generally speaking, creativity is an innate process to create novel ideas; ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in the original and creative way. It is the qualification to be creative, insightful and inventive. Some say ingenuity is the distant cousin of creativity, ingenuity often demands creativity as a mixed ingredient for puzzle-solving or invention. Ingenuity is increasingly important because the business world becomes overly complex and hyper-connected, so which questions to ask for assessing a person’s ingenuity?

Innovativeness Potential is about the ability to grow and develop into something in the future. There are physical potential, intellectual potential, and spiritual potential. How to unleash the abundance of human potential is perhaps one of the best rewarding areas for human society advancement. But it is the arena full of myths. Metaphorically, human potential is like Spring Water, the deeper you dig, the more it flows out

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