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

Harvard Business Review

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce. Extend the insights beyond talent acquisition decisions.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Purell) consistent with its chosen way to play.