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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. Polly LaBarre and I discussed just this topic with Marc Andreessen, the legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur, for our book, Mavericks at Work. The new term of choice is 'alumni.'