Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction from the authors. 1 - Talent Imperatives for a New Economic World: A new context; The strategic importance of talent; The need to embrace diversity; The importance of learning and skills development; The challenge of engagement; Managing talent throughout the organization; Summary. 2 - A Strategic Approach to Talent: The executive perspective; High performance - the key drivers; How to multiply talent; The HR function in the spotlight; HR and talent management - an unfinished evolution; Summary. 3 - The Discovery of Talent: Identifying your talent needs; Recruitment - will you discover talent or drive it away? Summary. 4 - From Talent Development to Deployment: New demand for new skills; Deploying talent - managing the work strategically; Summary. 5 - Engagement: Why engagement matters; What engagement means; Drivers of engagement; Gaining more insight on engagement - segmenting the workforce; The key ingredient of engagement - the line managers; Summary. 6 - Embedding and Sustaining Talent Power: Measuring talent's contribution to business performance; Measuring process effectiveness - the concept of maturity; A framework for prioritizing and measuring human capital investments; The transformation and reorganization of HR; Everyone's responsible; Failures of communication; Summary. 7 - Next Steps and the New Imperatives: Becoming a talent-powered organization; Critical tasks fur key stakeholders; Conclusions - beyond talent multiplication. References.