Charles Woodruffe has worked as a management consultant for fifteen years. His company -- Human Assets -- is based in London and specializes in creating and implementing strategies to ensure that clients have the staff they need, now and in the future, to fulfil their business strategies. Charles and his colleagues deal with choosing and developing people as well as with their motivation and retention. They work for a range of organizations in the private sector as well as having clients in the public sector. Present and past clients include NatWest Bank, Nomura International, Unisys, HSBC, Canada Life, ESSO and the Bank of England. Charles brings together his degrees in business and in psychology to find effective, practical and lasting solutions to the issues his clients face in the HR arena. He has published widely with articles in Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, People Management and Competency as well as earlier publications in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His book on assessment centres is in its third edition. Charles can be contacted at: cw@humanassets.co.uk

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• 1. Introduction. 2. The Selection Paradox. 3. Roll up for the mystery tour recruiting high flyers. 4. According to their needs motivating and retaining the highflyer. 5. Hire em fire em versus one big family - organisational responseto uncertainty. One day all this will be yours developing high potentialstaff. 7. A great exaggeration the death of career management. 8. Get out the crystal ball best guesses for the future.