Talent Economics Quotes

“Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea.
And this is the age of the idea”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“A leader without purpose, is a leader by accident”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“A ‘truly global’ firm in 2020 should have the ability to be domestically relevant to consumers in both developed
and developing markets – at the same time”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.
Focus instead, on where you invest your time.”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach a
supermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for
another”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“In a digitally enabled world, all businesses are global.”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:
freely exchangeable currency.”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent