Definition of "high-potential" []

• Operating on or powered by a high voltage (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "2. Define "high-potential" - Once you gain support to invest in your agency's high-potential employees, you need to define the term "high-potential.""
• "Companies might hesitate to publicly label their high-potential employees because it may alienate those who aren't tapped or pressure the organization to follow up on some promise of career advancement, says Doug Ready , a leadership professor at University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School."
• "Our new report, The Myth of the Ideal Worker, the latest in our series on high-potential employees, makes it clear that even when women do "all the right things" they're unlikely to earn as much or advance as far as their male colleagues."