If you pay attention to some commentators on recruiting and human capital management, we’re at war. No, I don’t mean the one in Afghanistan, or even the one against terror. I mean the War for Talent.
Is there anyone out there who, with me, sees this metaphor as tired and tastelessly inaccurate in today’s world, not to mention downright silly and macho-pretentious? What does it say about us that we have continued to invoke it so mechanically and reflexively for more than a decade, after all that’s happened to us as a nation and a world culture?
Back in the heady days of the start-up boom, it was once a clever, seriocomic outrider of dot.com expansionism. But it’s time to move on. Of course companies and organizations are engaged in competition with each other—competition for market share, for a share of our attention, and even for talent. But let’s not confuse healthy competition with aggressive conflict. Would you endorse this rough-and-tumble strain if it were to spread inside your organizational culture?
The War for Talent? Say it and listen to yourself. Don’t you sound like a character on Mad Men? Let’s allow this blow-hard, self-aggrandizing bromide to fade into business history, like the dictaphone.
Bob,
That is such dribble. Don't you have better things to do than to police terminology. Next you will be trying to stop competition. You are clearly a head in the clouds "can't we just get along" whimp. Fighting for talent is a must for business success just as it is for protecting freedom and liberty. Those who don't get it either lose out or ride on the coattails of others who do. My guess is you are the latter.
Either get better things to do or quit clogging the blogspace.
Jim in the Real World
@Jim in the Real World. I guess you are a real proponent of jargon. and cliche in HR.....certainly suggested by your blog.
There are many good reasons that HR exists and is important. It is not a wartime function like the armed forces and its success and failure is not measured in human lives. Let’s not mistake human capital for human life. Move on and be less pretentious!I feel like I need to stick up for Bob. He has a kind face... I wish we could banish all office jargon. The war for talent is a bit over the top.
I feel I must stick up for the humble dictaphone though... a marverlous piece of technology!
Nice pic of the Village People too.
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