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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. That's why there's little pushback on pricing, obsolescence, or disappointing developers. "I don't think [fill in the project] even matters to our customers.". These are not the kinds of comments any of us utter if we know "the boss" could hear them.

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