an organization’s capability agenda is increasingly less about your status in the company, the colour of your identity card, words in your contract or the job title you carry, and more about the value you create

It has taken management sciences an incredibly long time to wake up to the fact that for knowledge workers, cognitive engagement is vastly more important than physical presence. And this makes connecting with the ideas hidden within our talent very important, because ideas do what tedious supervision cannot—they raise initiative

Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:freely exchangeable currency.

In a digitally enabled world, all businesses are global.

it isn’t just talent which is mobile today, the work itself is highly mobile too.

Given the journey that talent management is on, we do seem to need new answers to new problems, rather than another retrofit of past practices

in a world more networked and connected than ever, your talent increasingly doesn’t carry an employee ID.

In a future ready organization, ‘talent’ is increasingly a metaphor for capability—at the right place, at the right time and equally, at the right price.