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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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Managing On-Demand Talent

Harvard Business Review

We call this phenomenon agile talent. Our research, which is the basis for our new book Agile Talent , found that over half executives report increasing their use of outside expertise and sourcing talent from “the cloud.” While agile talent can be a game changer for organizations, it’s not a panacea.