Back in 1997, āThe Talent Warā became a thing when McKinsey & Co made it so.
Their idea being, if you can attract enough good people to your cause, you can climb any mountain, win any battle, kill any dragon, do whatever you want.
In other words, with talent, anything is possible.
The trouble, of course, is that your competition wants and needs that talent just as much as you do, and will fight fiercely to get it, hence the so-called war.
The interesting thing from our perspective is that the secret to recruiting talent is having a culture that would attract said talent. Get the culture right, and the talent follows. Get it wrong, and your best talent will leave you like rats leaving a sinking ship.
This means, if you think about it, the real war really isnāt for talent. The real war is for culture. THAT is where the real fight is.
Welcome to The Culture War.
a very interesting look at culture in business and recruitment; however, i think itās not limited to to the inside of a business. culture is what attracts the most attention; a brand is part of a culture for its customersā¦ i think this short article has so many different levelsā¦ read it more than once with different parts of a business in mindā¦. youāll see what i mean.
