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The Talent Wars Are Upon Us—What You Need to Know to Succeed

Written by Clark Waterfall | Jul 27, 2021 1:59:48 PM

Right now, employers throughout the country and abroad are feeling the pressure of intensifying talent wars. With employees experiencing dramatic shifts in everything from workplace expectations to career trajectories, employers are left trying to navigate not only retaining talent but the ongoing competition for new talent.

While BSG’s experts will be exploring this topic throughout the coming months and publishing our findings and experience, Harvard Business Review recently put together a compilation of articles that address quite a few of these concerns. We’ve included them here for you today and will be exploring them in further detail alongside our own experiences from the “hiring battlefields” of executive leadership across PE-backed middle-market companies.

A curated selection of HBR articles on talent issues: