
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