Talent management starts with the individual within the organisation. Good talent management doesn't deal exclusively with so-called 'A players'. Instead, it focuses on how to motivate each unique employee and explores how, through tailor-made interventions, each can reach their full potential. The value of each company is concentrated around its experts and specialists who, through their in-depth knowledge, could build or destroy the enterprise. Talent management should therefore focus on attracting, developing and retaining experts and specialists with their valuable, hard to duplicate knowledge, and this book will show you how to achieve that. The Michelangelo Pipeline will lead you through a complete methodology to building a talent pipeline based on individual capability and an evidence-based approach to performance management. With the insights from this book, you will achieve a stronger organisational culture, improved operational performance and the long term retention of your expert talent.