In the short term, mentoring provides a mechanism for assessing, recruiting, and shaping talent for building the faculty member's research program.
But she does have the benefit of a coach to help her develop her flying, one-handed backhand, and to help her shape the talent spilling out of her thin frame.
"We are working to develop leaders and shape future talent pools to help us meet the needs of our customers around the world," the report says.
Such responses point to the particular but universal appeal of the trio, a shape-shifting talent for reflecting their listeners' obsessions and interests in a new guise, always fascinating, and as invigorating as fresh waves crashing against a rocky shore.
The number of Scots in the Premier League in England, as a proportion of the total, is growing, which is a further indication that clubs are making progress in identifying and shaping young talent.
Gladwell asserts that all of the time The Beatles spent performing shaped their talent, and quotes Beatles' biographer Philip Norman as saying, "So by the time they returned to England from Hamburg, Germany, 'they sounded like no one else.
The centres are now known for shaping young talent, fostering teamwork, bringing different communities together and providing young people with skills to better their lives.
The idea that the literary agencies of New York City do the kinds of manuscript-shaping and talent-finding that editors used to perform isn't new.
As Harry Osborn, best friend to Peter Parker in Spider-Man (2002), a film adaptation of the comic book, Franco proved himself adept at shaping his talents to the broad sensibilities of the genre.
The German composer Florian Fricke lent his shape-shifting talents to a number of Werner Herzog's existential films, but for 1978's Nosferatu, Fricke's band Popol Vuh attempted more complex material than they'd experimented with before.
