Investing in talent is beneficial to organizations in
three major ways: a) enabling those organizations that are resource constrained or have had to reduce headcount
in the face of increasing demand to do-more-with less, b) preventing the talent drain when economic conditions
improve, and c) investing in leadership to avoid the high costs of staff turnover as the number one reason that
employees give for leaving an organization is dissatisfaction with their immediate superior (Ogden, 2011 in Nel
et.al, 2011).