The “war for talent,” a term coined by McKinsey & Company in 1997, refers to an increasingly competitive landscape for recruiting and retaining talented employees. Inherent to “talent,” in this use, is not a set of superior human resources processes, but a mindset that emphasizes the importance of talent to the success of organizations. The underlying assumption is that for knowledge-intensive industries, the knowledge worker is the key competitive resource. Click here to download the full paper.