The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management: Powerful Tools for Leveraging a Changing Workforce

Acknowledgments

Every book is an adventure or an odyssey, depending on how you are feeling about the project that day. No effort like this could be completed without the direct and indirect support of hundreds of people who helped us along this journey. Over the past 20 years, our clients, workshop participants, and research partners have taught us a tremendous amount about the challenges of managing talent in the context of a changing workforce. Their courage to try innovative solutions—and to share their learning from those experiences—has been immensely helpful in shaping our thinking about what works and what doesn’t.

We are particularly grateful to the more than 70 senior executives and talent management experts whom we interviewed as part ...