Talent mobility and multi-company careers have become essential for leadership in today's dynamic business environment. Lifetime careers at single companies are no longer sufficient given the modular and global nature of value chains. The best and brightest talent now seek a variety of experiences across multiple employers to provide contemporary professional learning and remain relevant. While companies still aim to retain top performers, they must also embrace larger inflows and outflows of talent between firms to access needed skills. This ensures crucial contributions to success from diverse leaders and new levels of flexible resourcing.

1. Talent Mobility and
Leadership Availability

2. Meet some of the best and the brightest - they have
the ability and the potential to do great things

3. They enjoy great careers and are growing as corporate
leaders

4. They always had their pick of companies where they could
pursue their (lifetime) careers

5. They chose companies providing them with the best
development and life-time career potential
Variety of
Professional
Challenges
International
Perspective
Iconic Brand
and Prestige
Successful
Corporation
Career &
Development
Support

6. ....but no more!
(the lifetime part, that is)

7. The best and brightest have figured out they can find even
more rewarding, challenging, and relevant careers across
companies
!

8. Careers across multiple companies offer more career
freedom than traditional, single company careers, even the
ones with the most iconic employers

9. Some would argue that the best and brightest are just
being opportunistic and showing a lack of loyalty

10. ....but are they?

11. This is the Ford Motor Company

12. They used to have everything in house for making cars
- from rubber plantations to product promotions

13. Lifetime careers at Ford were essential to make all these
parts work together

14. Today's environment is very different however - our value
chains (and markets and resources) are now truly
modular, networked, and increasingly global
Partnering, Licensing,
Pooling, Joint Venturing,
Insourcing, Outsourcing,
Co-making, Co-
developing, Co-branding,
Offshoring, Nearshoring,
Contract Manufacturing,
4th Party Logistics
Services, and
then some….

15. Now you need to make the parts of different
companies work together to create (new) value for your
customers

16. In this light, Multi-Company Careers make sense – they
provide a highly relevant assortment of experiences for
today's business environment

17. In other words, the best and brightest are simply providing
themselves with a contemporary professional learning
curve

18. We should ask ourselves whether we can do without
leadership formed through multi-company careers?

19. In fact, even the most iconic life time employers are turning
to multi-company career leadership and talent

20. so what does that mean?

21. A simple conclusion must be that retention alone has
become an overrated talent management tool

22. You risk denying yourself the sort of talent you need in
today's dynamic and complex business environment

23. More importantly, you risk disenchanting the best and
brightest at a time when you need more of them

24. so now what?

25. It appears prudent to at least make sure substantially larger
inflows and outflows of talent can be handled at all levels

26. And to make sure that such enlarged flows can also make
effective contributions quickly and efficiently

27. While all the time safeguarding corporate culture and
identity, continuity, and long term strategy

28. In addition, the best and brightest have to see you as an
essential building block of their careers

29. As individuals we need to
ensure sufficient career
guidance in dealing with the
newfound career freedom…

30. …and at the same time, we need to ensure continuity and
consistency in our development support

31. The benefits

32. The overriding benefit is crucial and continued
contributions to business success by the best & the brightest

33. It also provides the basis for new levels of resourcing
freedom and flexibility in terms of quality and quantity

34. And in your role as one of the best and brightest - a more
rewarding and durable career progression.....!