Talent Management Quotes

“Micro-managing creativity kills it. To encourage creative brilliance, foster an atmosphere where it can thrive and then step out of the way and let it happen.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Human resource management begins in elementary school. You can’t expect to hire a 21 year old or a 40 year old or a 60 year old and magically with good training, replace the programming they received in K-12. This is why businesses should invest in early education.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Do not punish people for being honest and truthful.
The day we will start punishing people for demonstrating honesty and truthfulness, will also be the day we will start surrounding ourselves with liars and dishonest people.
Reward the behavior you want your people to demonstrate.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“When you grow talent, you know the pain of wasting it.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, Nothing About Business

“Human resource management begins in elementary school. You can’t expect to hire a 21 year old or a 40 year old or a 60 year old and magically with good training, replace the programming they received in K-12.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“To empower is to give the team a means to shine.”
― Pearl Zhu, 100 Digital Rules

“A person is purely talented if he has the capability to bring out the hidden talent in another person”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.”
― Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles

“An individual’s agility is a fundamental digital capability block through which she or he can build more advanced professional capabilities and better fit in the digital dynamic we live in.”
― Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles

“Every person is unique, put the right people with the right capability to the right position to solve the right problems.”
― Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles

“Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.”
― Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles

“Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“The nutshell version is that you need to think about the employee mindsets, behaviors, knowledge, and expertise that are potentially linked to the performance outcomes of interest.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Measure thinker performance and doer performance differently but objectively.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“While hiring, look for candidates who have been laid off, or who took extended paternity or maternity leave to be with their kids in their growing years. Not only will it give you an excellent hiring experience, in terms of lower joining attrition rate and shorter recruitment cycle, but it will also ensure higher retention rate.
People who get laid-off are not bad people or non-performers, it is just that they didn't fit into the culture of one organization or that particular organization couldn't afford them (cost-cutting). Such people deserve to be looked differently and given another chance.
People who take an extended break to take care of their infants are career oriented people with a temporary shift in their priorities, do not make it look permanent.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“Given the journey that talent management is on, we do seem to need new answers to new problems, rather than another retrofit of past practices”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“Never tell anyone about all the shit you can do, or they will expect you to do it for free.”
― Jay Manuel, The Wig, the Bitch & the Meltdown

“What I found most interesting about Session C was the unique window it provided the CEO into the business. It was "boundaryless" before the word came into favor as a GE company value. It was functionally agnostic and part of a more extensive system managed by the top executive with ties to the board of directors, corporate and operating executives, and various management levels. No one could claim outright ownership for it, but everyone was intimately involved.”
― Paul Pierroz, The Purpose-Driven Marketing Handbook: How to Discover Your Impact and Communicate Your Business Sustainability Story to Grow Sales, Retain Talent, and Attract Investors

“If a prospective employer tells you your compensation is above their budget, it’s not your problem. Your above-average pay is a validation that you are an above-average performer. Don’t apologize for being the best talent. You have reached there with hard work and determination. Don’t undersell. Mediocre salaries will only get them mediocre talent.”
― Pavithra Urs

“As we dismantle the traditional notions of talent, it's imperative to broaden our lens to include the global talent pool—a vast expanse of potential that, when tapped into wisely, can become a cornerstone of our talent revolution.”
― Donna Karlin, Talent Momentum: Attracting Brilliance for Tomorrow's Leaders

“It is easy to bet on people you already know.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Talent mobility is not a piece of furniture that you can buy from the market and put in your living room.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Talent mobility is as soft as “values” that you pass on while upbringing your child. It is very hard to pass on the values when the child grows up.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“The properly designed jobs make transition from one job to another effortless and natural.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“The engagement rates are far better if career planning is built in the jobs at the very beginning.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Transfers keep the talent flowing in the organization.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“Separation is not the end of a relationship.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, HR Mastermind

“I never pick one, to prove my talent.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar