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Death of the Free Agent Nation?? Say it ain't so…

Roundtable Talk

Say it ain’t so… Posted on March 29, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 2 Comments In 1999 Dan Pink put out his book Free Agent Nation based on his earlier Fast Company article and changed my view of organizational life as I knew it. Personally, I found the entire article pretty ridiculous. → Death of the Free Agent Nation?? Happy leading!

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Several years ago, in a long New Yorker essay called "The Talent Myth," Malcolm Gladwell launched a withering attack on just this sort of star system. The fact that the book appeared just two months before the scandal-plagued company filed for bankruptcy did not exactly endear its main arguments to the skeptical Gladwell.