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The Talent Supply Chain: Leveraging the Global Talent Market

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The consulting firm McKinsey & Company is a trend-setter in the business world. Their examination of “excellent” US companies in the early 1980’s became a “search for excellence” that produced one of the best-selling business books of all time — In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies — and turned a former McKinsey consultant — Tom Peters — into a business pop-guru.

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Orleman, P., Borner, H. (2008). The Talent Supply Chain: Leveraging the Global Talent Market. In: Pantaleo, D., Pal, N. (eds) From Strategy to Execution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71880-2_10

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