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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. He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent. What if smart people are overrated?". Let's make an offer.'