Received: March 18, 2015; Accepted: March 20, 2015; Published: March 22, 2015 If you read these pages, you certainly know the seminal book by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982). In his Masterpiece, Benoit provides both a mathematical model and a description for many of the seemingly complex forms and patterns in nature, showing that fractal patterns are extremely famili...

Talent finding in sports can not only lead to winning teams but also ensure individuals continue to participate, improve their talents, and take preventive measures against injuries. Athletic talent often develops as the result of morphological, physiological, or psychological characteristics. Many of these characteristics are inherited, and genetics have important implications for talent. Tale...

Similarities between the identification and development of athletic talent and that of gifted children are rarely compared. Interestingly, however, they share analogous processes. The purpose of this review is to investigate the progress of research regarding athletic talent identification and development, including current issues, and provide suggestions for future research. Key roadblocks to ...

The research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive and destructive activities. This allocation has important implications in the developing world, particularly for countries hosting conflict or recovering from conflict. The alloca...

Talent transfer initiatives seek to transfer talented, mature individuals from one sport to another. Unfortunately talent transfer initiatives seem to lack an evidence-based direction and a rigorous exploration of the mechanisms underpinning the approach. The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify the factors which successfully transferring athletes cite as facilitative of talent tra...

talent finding in sports can not only lead to winning teams but also ensure individuals continue to participate, improve their talents, and take preventive measures against injuries. athletic talent often develops as the result of morphological, physiological, or psychological characteristics. many of these characteristics are inherited, and genetics have important implications for talent. tale...

Teachers and principals have the greatest impact on student learning. Unfortunately, our public education system, until recently, selected and tenured thousands of ineffective teachers and principals particularly in high-poverty urban school and rural schools. But the landscape of how teachers and principals—the education talent—are managed is dramatically changing. A comprehensive and holistic...

the main purpose of research was analysis of agricultural educator's creativity and investigating it's relation with effective contextual variables. research method was descriptive- survey and applied-developmental methods were used. statistical population consisted of agricultural educators of agricultural education centers in kermanshah province (n=60) that studied by census method....

There is an increasing awareness of the significance of talent and talent management to an organisation’s performance and competitive advantage. Similarly there is increasing recognition that human capital and talent issues permeate throughout most segments of an organisation. Accordingly, when an organisation decides to change its processes and the way that it conducts its business, talent man...