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Talents are individuals who mastered their field for its own sake. They reached this mastery through thousands of hours working on this field because they were passionate about it, and not for money or for fame.

Their ultimate goal is to contribute to their field, develop new theories. Ultimately they aim at changing people`s lives through their contributions. That is moving evolving the mastery stage to the creativity stage. And as soon as you put this into perspective you will realize that higher wages means overpricing average people. For you to retain your talents is to nurture their passion and help them create. 

The right question to solve the talents` retention problem is: how can I help my employees "create" within the scope of their field?

And this is what you can do as of tomorrow:

1. Leave them in peace

Get rid of the endless meetings, or if you do them, then have them during lunch

Do not ask for those tps reports, if you want to know something then have an application do it for you  

2. Give them interesting projects

Develop a challenging vision and share it with them

Do not have them work on things they can not benefit from 

Let them define their own projects and manage their tasks

3. Have them collaborate with other talents

Hire talents, and let them exchange their knowledge

Introduce you them to your talented friends

Have experts come and talk to them 

4. Give them $ for knowledge

Make a budget for books, software, movies, conferences, and whatever that may develop their knowledge

Give them good resources

Make necessary ressources available, depending on the field, these may be processors, softwares, chemical ingredients...

5. Have fun

And have fun, you are not managing a company, you are managing a social system, a community...Have fun in everything ou do!