Foreword
In this valuable and forward-thinking book, Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood present a clear and cohesive roadmap for attracting, engaging, partnering with, and productively leading the work of external experts—what they’ve named “agile talent.”
Organizations are relying more and more on experts sourced from a growing global talent network. Whatever they’re called in your organization—external staff, contingent workers, free agents, contractors, or “gigsters”—it’s crucial to know how to manage and lead them.
Writing about knowledge workers in a 1999 article in California Management Review, Peter Drucker states, “The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is . . . to increase the productivity of knowledge ...
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