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building a workforce of the best and brightest requires family-friendly policies, creative perks, and flexible work practices; it means having a marketplace leadership position, to attract and retain the luminaries of each generation; and it means having skilled, knowledgeable performance management throughout the organization to maximize these new corporate assets.