How Long Has This Been Going On?

Dan L. Ward

STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING (SWP) is really about survival—having properly qualified people when and where you need them to achieve or sustain a desired outcome. This need to bring assurance to the future is fundamental to human nature. Families and tribes have a survival instinct to continue the family or tribe. Chiefs, shamans, hunters, farmers, artisans, and craftspeople all develop techniques to pass down their legacy from one person to the next to ensure the continuity of the “tribe.”

The largest early artificial structures thus far discovered are a series of twenty circular stone structures in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, called Göbekli Tepe. Göbekli Tepe was created by people who were believed ...

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