The greatest talent planning myth

"The war for talent," an exec meows. What does he mean? "Cut costs and drive revenue through new products. Find robots to work on this stuff if you can."

If I had to run down the biggest myths around talent planning in companies, I'd start with these few:

• The idea that, despite constantly saying "war for talent" in speeches, executives don't really care about talent planning. They view it as "a HR thing."

• That talent planning is even strategic, and not just a series of cover your ass moves by a hiring mana…