Talent Wins

Make HR a Source of Competitive Advantage

For years, people have written about the need to reinvent HR. The rise of the talent-driven organization transforms that idea into an immediate imperative.

If talent is king, finding, recruiting, supporting, and developing that talent is mission-critical work. Yet many business leaders, and their employees, continue to regard human resources primarily as a back-end service, responsible only for the administration of such things as benefits packages, payroll, onboarding, and training. Those tasks are necessary. But they don’t add tremendous value, which may be why some 72 percent of non-HR leaders rate ...