"In hiring and managing individual employees, it's important to understand what is difficult to change (talent) and what is more easily changed or acquired (knowledge and skills)," write John H. Fleming, Ph.D., and Jim Asplund in Understanding the Nature of Talent.

An excerpt from The Gallup Management Journal article is here.

More information is available at http://www.gallup.com/consulting/67/TalentBased-Hiring.aspx.