1st Edition
The Talent Imperative: Inside the US Army’s Talent Management Transformation
INTRODUCTION – THE TALENT IMPERATIVE
Lee Robinson
SECTION 1 – THE PEOPLE ENVIRONMENT
Lee Robinson
CHAPTER 1 – THE ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Lee Robinson and Michael Arnold
CHAPTER 2 – PEOPLE ARE THE ARMY’S COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Lee Robinson
SECTION 2 – KNOW YOUR PEOPLE
Lee Robinson
CHAPTER 3: ESTABLISH A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR TALENT
Ryan Royston, Greg Lockhart, and Charles Keil
CHAPTER 4: SEE YOUR PEOPLE’S TALENTS
David R. Glerum, Kirby J. Hockensmith, Margaret J. Hockensmith, and Gerald (Jay) F. Goodwin
CHAPTER 5: ASSESS YOUR PEOPLE – THE COMMAND ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Robert A. O’Brien IV, Curtis D. Tait, Jonathan C. Cheek, Michael T. Yates, and Stephen T. McDonald
CHAPTER 6: EMPLOY YOUR PEOPLE’S TALENTS
Delaney Brown, Lee Robinson, and Carl Wojtaszek
CHAPTER 7: ALIGN YOUR PEOPLE’S TALENTS – TALENT BASED BRANCHING
John Vigna, Ashley Gardiner, and Nathan Hedgecock
SECTION 3 – FOSTER YOUR PEOPLE’S POTENTIAL
Lee Robinson
CHAPTER 8: COACH YOUR PEOPLE
Christine Baker
CHAPTER 9: CAREER MAPPING
Kristin Saling
SECTION 4 – FOSTER A PROFESSIONAL FORCE
Lee Robinson
CHAPTER 10: CONTINUOUS INNOVATION
Michael Arnold
CHAPTER 11: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE
Lee Robinson and Michael Arnold
APPENDIX: LIST OF ACRONYMS
Biography
Lee Robinson chairs the American Politics program at the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as a strategist for the Army Talent Management Task Force.
Michael Arnold served as the Deputy Director of the US Army Talent Management Task Force and is a Veteran Fellow with the Hoover Institution.
"The Talent Imperative bridges scholarship and practice with unusual clarity to show how change can happen and its benefit for people and performance. It situates talent management within broader theories of public administration and organizational design, offering a valuable contribution for scholars and practitioners seeking to modernize large, complex institutions. This should be required reading for anyone looking to improve human resource management policies and practices."
Jessica E. Sowa, Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, University of Delaware"America will lose this century's wars without a management system as good as its leadership culture. The Talent Imperative makes the profound and definitive case that better talent management—not weapons or technology—is the vital front for America’s military future. This anthology is excellent, readable, and more necessary than ever."
- Tim Kane, Dean, University of Austin and the author of Bleeding Talent
