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

Harvard Business Review

As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals.

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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. A shock to the system — hitting a pothole, say — can throw a car that's well-aligned out of alignment. "I don't think [fill in the project] even matters to our customers.".

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