Nearly two-thirds of high-potential start-ups fail due to tensions within the founding and executive team.
The funding will provide bursaries to talented and high-potential athletes to increase participation levels.
Besides teaching them what not to do, failure also matures high-potential employees into leaders.
Haller-Jorden said that MBAs represent "high-potential employees" who tend to be entrepreneurial and show a high level of initiative.
To date, the Gates Millennium Scholars Program has helped 13, 000 high-potential, low-income students improve their lives through higher education.
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Ostenso had just founded a nongovernmental organization in Cambodia to provide high-potential, high-need women with a viable and valuable education.
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Yet too often companies simply round up the usual suspects--high-potential employees and senior executives in roles that are critical for business success.
We take experienced or high-potential young managers, and we accelerate the speed with which they can assume more management and leadership responsibilities.
Mr. Williams said Hyundai plans to tinker with Facebook's targeting tools over the next year to find new ways to reach high-potential consumers.
However the sector drew strength from steady demand and a greater presence worldwide, particularly on high-potential markets less affected by exchange rate fluctuations.
The company will now go head-to-head with giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola in these high-potential regions, something which will require a lot of marketing muscle.
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Co-founder of She Negotiates and a certified coach, Lisa helps high-potential women improve their leadership, communication, and career opportunities while maximizing their passion.
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According to Tony Goodwin, who heads up Antal, a global management recruiter, such a tool for motivating high-potential staff is more important now than ever.
Failure to assign key clients or challenging projects to high-potential women.
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High-potential candidates make us think harder than proven ones do.
The brightly painted hallways are crammed with new hires in a rush, high-potential prospects who, in Manglik's generation, had to leave India if they wanted to exploit their technology degrees.
This is a route usually reserved for high-potential startups.
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Among other things, the funds would be channelled towards training high-potential but disadvantaged, unemployed youths and getting them jobs in digital fields such as service center support, online research and Web design.
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Virtually every board of directors seeks to develop and actively oversee a well conceived, gradual management succession process in which high-potential management candidates are identified early, groomed and the like in a very orderly way.
In many cases this type of broadened exposure could be facilitated by the company using networking events that bring a variety of staff members together, especially high-potential employees who can gain insight from high-level executives.
Finally, my inspiration came from my own faculty and staff that committed thousands of hours to creating this program with the hope of providing these fellows women who represent high-potential 21st-century leadership with the tools they need to break through into corporate boardrooms.
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"Not only does Tencent have a cash cow in its strong gaming business, but the company is also best-positioned in high-potential markets like social media and mobile Internet services, " said Jefferies analyst Cynthia Meng, who has a buy rating on Tencent's stock.
Notably, INTC recently closed its acquisition of Infineon Technologies (IFNNY), maker of the chips inside the iPhone 3GS. INTC remains one of the best-positioned and strongest companies in the high-growth-potential semi-conductor sector.
The fast-growing economies of Asia-Pacific and Latin America offer long-term, high-growth potential in domestic delivery markets.
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Firms in other countries were quicker to see the high-impact potential of the pop-up technique.
Even if prison fails the tests of rehabilitation and deterrence, taking high-risk potential offenders out of circulation by locking them up appears at least to be an important way of protecting the public.
While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.
"There's a form of murder in which you may not have intended to kill, but that you engaged in conduct that had such high death-producing potential and depraved indifference to the value of human life, " Stokes said.
While we believe that cloud services have high potential - we forecast that revenue will treble over a five-year period - we do not believe that enterprises will retire vast quantities of legacy solutions just so they can 'go cloud'.
But, says Jamie Nicholson of Warburg Dillon Reed, an investment bank, with car makers and other steel buyers increasingly looking for local suppliers to make just-in-time deliveries, the export potential of high-value products is not good.
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