Beyond HR

Preface and Acknowledgments

This book describes our vision of a future where the issues of talent and how it is organized get the attention they deserve, the kind of deep and logical attention worthy of a resource that’s vital to strategic success. In 1995 we began working together on the ideas that eventually produced this book. It was a unique collaboration between a professor with fifteen years of scholarship and consulting on HR, human capital measurement, staffing, and strategy and a consultant with significant expertise and experience in accounting, finance, and strategy and a strong interest in research. The colleagues who introduced us said that we were pursuing a similar vision—greater clarity connecting talent to strategy—but from different ...