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Bench Strength
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Bench Strength

by Robert W. Barner
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 11
M
AKING
M
ID
-C
OURSE
C
ORRECTIONS
No matter how far you have gone down the
wrong road, turn back.
—T
URKISH PROVERB
No matter how carefully one constructs and implements an organi-
zational talen t strategy, occas ional ly eve ry manager makes talent
decisions that either prov e to be wrong or that need to be reexam-
ined based on ev olving orga nizat ional requirements. The trick is to
develop ‘‘early aler t systems’’ that q uickly sign al that a talent de -
cision isn’t working, and then take actions t o correct it. In this
chapter I ’ll pr ovide suggestion s for managing two d iffe rent ty pes
of mid-course corrections on talent management. The
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ISBN: 9780814429402