From “Head of TA” to “Head of TALENT”: Why the ‘Strategic Hiring Partner’ is No Longer Enough.

Is it time to drop the ‘Acquisition’ part of the TA? Brainfooder Soeren Winter thinks so, in another outstanding post which describes the stark choices in front of us: the business does not want talent for talent’s sake, they want capacity to achieve outcomes. That capacity might be new human workers on the payroll, but increasingly, may not. If we want to hang around, we need to be able to stay in the room when the answer is the latter. More from Soeren in Brainfood Live this Friday, as we go through the 6 x AI Frameworks that big corps like Microsoft, Amazon et al use to understand AI + Human relationships - how this translate to us.

The Agentic Organization: Contours of the Next Paradigm for the AI Era

I’ve come full circle on McKinsey; I’m now a full on McKinsey Stan, because this is how you actually do Thought Leadership - produce a high enough volume of high enough quality content that gives enough tooling for the willing masses to pick up and have a go. What does the Agentic Organisation look like? Seems to be there some work here for TA / HR pro’s, if we get ahead of the inevitable McKinsey curve