About the Contributors

KENTARO ARAMAKI is the leader of Egon Zehnder’s Executive Assessment and Development Practice in Japan.

DOMINIC BARTON is the global managing partner of McKinsey & Company. He is a coauthor of Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).

RICHARD W. BEATTY is a professor of human resource management at Rutgers University. He is a coauthor of The Workforce Scorecard (Harvard Business Review Press, 2005) and The Differentiated Workforce (Harvard Business Review Press, 2009).

BRIAN E. BECKER is a professor of human resources in the School of Management at SUNY Buffalo in New York. He is a coauthor of The Workforce Scorecard and The Differentiated Workforce.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM is the head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute and a coauthor of Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019).

PETER CAPPELLI is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and a director of its Center for Human Resources. He is the author of several books, including Will College Pay Off? A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make.

DENNIS CAREY is the vice chair of Korn Ferry. He is the coauthor of seven books, including Talent, Strategy, Risk: How Investors and Boards Are Redefining TSR (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) and Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018). He has recruited for boards and CEOs across the U.S.

ALICE DE CHALENDAR is a consultant at BCG and a researcher at the BCG Henderson Institute.

RAM CHARAN advises the CEOs and boards of some of the world’s biggest corporations and serves on seven boards himself. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Talent, Strategy, Risk (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) and Talent Wins (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).

CLAUDIO FERNÁNDEZ-ARÁOZ is an executive fellow for executive education at Harvard Business School and the author of It’s Not the How or the What but the Who (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014).

ANDY FLEMING is the CEO of The Development Edge and a coauthor of An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016).

JOSEPH FULLER is a professor of management practice and a cochair of the Project on Managing the Future of Work at Harvard Business School. He is also the faculty cochair of HBS’s executive education program on Leading an Agile Workforce Transformation.

ASHLEY GOODALL is senior vice president of leadership and team intelligence at Cisco Systems and a coauthor of Nine Lies About Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019).

LYNDA GRATTON is a professor of management practice at London Business School and the founder of HSM, the future-of-work research consultancy. Her most recent book, coauthored with Andrew J. Scott, is The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World.

LINDA A. HILL is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is the author of Becoming a Manager (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019), and a coauthor of Being the Boss (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019), and Collective Genius (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014).

MARK A. HUSELID is a professor and director of the Center for Workforce Analytics at Northeastern University. He is a coauthor of The Workforce Scorecard and The Differentiated Workforce.

ROBERT KEGAN is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

LISA LAHEY is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the cofounder and chief knowledge officer of The Development Edge.

ANTHONY J. MAYO is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit of Harvard Business School.

MATTHEW MILLER is a lecturer and the associate dean for learning and teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

MANJARI RAMAN is a program director and senior researcher for Harvard Business School’s Project on U.S. Competitiveness and the Project on Managing the Future of Work.

DOUGLAS A. READY is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder and president of ICEDR.

LAURA MORGAN ROBERTS is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and coeditor of Race, Work and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019).

ANDREW ROSCOE is the former leader of Egon Zehnder’s Executive Assessment and Development Practice.

ANNA TAVIS is a clinical associate professor of human capital management at New York University and the “Perspectives” editor at People + Strategy, a journal for HR executives.

ROBERT J. THOMAS is a managing director of Accenture Strategy. He is the author of eight books on leadership and organizational change, including Crucibles of Leadership, Geeks and Geezers (with Warren Bennis), and Driving Results through Social Networks (with Robert L. Cross).

JUDITH K. WALLENSTEIN is a senior partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group and a BCG Fellow.