"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