(The National) -- Recent market swings have taught business the importance of top performers in management in helping to ensure continued success, Simon Blandford comments.

To support the ambitious, but still attainable, long-term plans put in place by the UAE, organisations today have to capitalise on the past and plan for the future.

Talented people are the key to its success and the recent market swings have taught us that it is not just a volume of people issue, but also one of concentrating on the creme de la creme in the region.

Progressive companies in the UAE have transformed their talent management policies to adapt to the changes.

But given the instability over the past 18 months, and the light that is now appearing on the horizon, which companies will remember these lessons and who will thrive when the upturn begins?

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