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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. But great people can keep working with you, long after they've stopped working for you. Forget such terms as 'ex-employees' and 'former colleagues.'