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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. Today I'm talking with

John Younger, co-author with Norm Smallwood of the new book Agile Talent, How to Source and Manage Outside

Experts. John, thank you so much for talking with us today.

Thank you for your invitation.

So companies have long relied on freelancers and temporary workers, but I think it seems like we're now at a point where things are shifting.

You know, we're not only talking about seasonal industries anymore. We are talking about all kinds of

industries at all levels of the organization.

So can you give us an example of how this shift is happening and the kind of people that you

identify as agile talent?

Absolutely and let me start by reinforcing adult talents absolutely and uh...

but we start by

reinforcing your last point

we started as an industry the consulting industry i think in nineteen twenty

six

and we've certainly provided temporary workers well before that as well.

So when we talk about agile talent, it's not quite the same as a temporary worker, it's not quite the same as a temporary worker it's not quite the same as a

contractor or an outsourceer we're really focused on a new generation

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