Talent management strategy should leave HR

I know: let's put the acquisition of people -- a company's biggest cost and greatest resource -- into the hands of a department that executives barely care about. This will end super well.

To see the relative importance of talent management strategy to most current executives, let's play a quick game. Imagine there's an issue with a product. Like, I don't know -- maybe it's defective in some way. In general, how quickly will this issue be resolved? How fast will an all-hands meeting be called? I'd say less than one week. (Of course, if th…