Friday 15th November, 2024
John Winsor on ‘Open Talent’
The last in our quarterly series of international speaker events in 2024 saw Harvard Business Review author John Winsor in the RDS Members’ Club in Dublin to speak on reorganising around the new, digitally enabled world of “open talent”.
In his eye-opening, essential guidebook for the new world of work Open Talent, John, leader at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, shows how the massive reset of the pandemic allowed talented workers everywhere to exit their jobs without leaving the workforce. Now some are freelancing for multiple companies or starting small businesses, leaving hiring managers scratching their heads over a workforce gone AWOL. What’s more, talent has more power than ever using platforms such as Freelancer.com, Fiverr, and Upwork, setting their terms for work: what, where, when, and at what price.
How can companies adapt? The key, John and co-author Jin Paik argue, is shifting to a more “distributed” idea of the organisation that revolves around talent (people) and projects, not divisions and offices. In this new model, which the authors call a networked organisation, talent is culled from both inside and outside the organisation, dispensing with siloed approaches to talent acquisition and instead viewing talent through a single lens: as a global ecosystem that can be tapped as needed.
You can view John slides here.
