Katie Pattullo talks to Philippa Milnes-Smith, managing director of literary agency Lucas Alexander Whitley, about why it is really not that easy to become a multi-million selling children’s author. Only a tiny percentage of scripts are actually considered ‘talent’ – and including bars of chocolate with your manuscript isn’t going to help...

In the second in this two-part series of articles Marcus Powell of Ashridge Consulting fleshes out more of the findings from their extensive research conducted in conjunction with the Chartered Management Institute and focuses on the structures and systems required to support a talent management strategy

As an organisation evolves the talent requirements are not necessarily those that worked well in the past. Dr Maria Yapp, founder and CEO of Xancam Consulting, describes why organisations should be looking for the ‘agilities’ of individuals as a key to determining leaders of the future

E.ON UK employs over 16,000 people across the UK in a variety of roles and environments, from power generation, through meter reading and installation to retail call centres. Melanie Jones, talent manager at E.ON, explains how they used this diversity to enact an emerging leaders programme bringing both business and personal benefits

The Ministry of Defence, like any global organisation, needs to fill key posts with the right people at the right time. Jim Butcher, deputy director of talent management, and Amanda Feggetter, psychologist talent management, at the Ministry of Defence explain how they focused on a scheme for developing talent for promotion into the senior civil service

Suzy Bibko, former editor of Families in Business magazine, ponders the problems of talent — or lack of ­— within family business and talks to the experts about the inbred challenges for family-run corporations

Having recently been placed second in a dream employer poll, and on the receiving end of an average of one million applications from prospective employees each year, Google don’t have to try too hard to attract talent – as a rule talent comes to them. But, as Liane Hornsey, Google’s HR director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, says, they work hard to be an employer of choice