The Talent Wave

The book that started the systemic talent management movement, The Talent Wave resulted from the research question “If HR practice in succession planning and talent management work, how come the wrong people so often get to the top?” The research found that the problem lies in treating the relationship between employees and their employer as a simple linear system rather than as a complex adaptive system. It provides a detailed recipe for rethinking talent and succession planning in ways that allow for much greater agility, flexibility and performance than standard approaches allow.