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Listen to Jean-Bernard Guerree, CEO, from the World Investment Conference. Guerree, a veteran of 20 years in the Silicon Valley tech sector, is sensitive to barriers in the financial sphere such as workforce mobility and skills.

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Expert File: War for talent

by Josef David

According to a landmark Mc Kinsey study in 1997, 6.000 manager and executives stated that the most important corporate resource over the next twenty years will be talent. Smart, sophisticated business people who are technologically literate, globally astute and operational agile.
In 2000 they updated the study and found, despite the economic slowdown and the end of the dot.com boom, the war for talent was intensifying dramatically. McKinsey found that attracting and retaining talent was not just a valid desire – it was a business imperative...

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