Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts

by Jon Younger, Jon Younger, Norm Smallwood

How to Leverage Talent You Don’t OwnCampbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology. Companies are gaining advantage through a new capability-strategic use of external experts-made possible by technology and the globalization of talent. Leaders everywhere recognize that “lean,” “agile,” and “fast” strategies require new ways to access and leverage-without owning-key talent to fill critical gaps. As managers seek nontraditional sources of strategic talent and experiment with fast, flexible ways of engaging these experts, they need a new roadmap.This book delivers that roadmap. It tells you how to assess, choose, attract, develop, support, and retain your external talent. Authored by thought leaders and bestselling authors in leadership and talent management who teach and consult globally, Agile Talent reveals how companies such as Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Google, IBM, and Bain Capital organize and manage new forms of talent in innovative ways. Supported by survey data and packed with tools and templates for applying these ideas, this book is the ultimate guide for winning the next war for talent.

Genres: Business, Leadership

244 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 16, 2016

Reviews

[Theodore Kinni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Addresses a big problem: the inability of companies to get full value from external talent. Academic-style read. The solutions are aimed at big companies that hire a lot of outside help.

[Rick Yvanovich · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite interesting, but not earth shattering insights. Treat your external talent well and not as aliens and you'll reap some good benefits basically.