• Managing Talent in Tough Times:  Towers Perrin"s latest research shows companies "get" talent more today than ever, but they still have a long way to go in integrating their talent practices
  Managing with the Brain in Mind  The final unexplored territory in talent management -- using neuroscience to understand our behaviors -- is explored in this strategy + business article.
• A Talent for Talent  Booz & Company provides some interesting new ways to think about driving competitive advantage through talent

• Building Talent in a Time of Layoffs  Booz & Company's five step process for realistically addressing your talent needs
• Kick-start your Talent Machine:  Bain & Co. offer their advice on how to get better results from your talent efforts
• The Talent Innovation Imperative: Booz & Co. + Sylvia Ann Hewlett offer their four point approach to managing talent better
• CEO Succession 2008: Stability in the Storm: Booz & Company's always interesting annual review of the ups and downs of Chief Executives during the past year
• Managing Talent in a Turbulent Economy -- Part 1.  First part of a longitudinal three party Deloitte study on this topic.  January 2009.
• Managing Talent in a Turbulent Economy -- Part 2.  Update on how companies were addressing this topic in March 2009.
• Threading the Talent Needle.  Deloitte study describes how global firms are dealing with talent issues in the economic downturn.
• Why Multinationals Struggle to Manage Talent, McKinsey quantitatively links great talent strategies -- globally consistent talent processes, attention to cultural diversity and executive mobility -- to superior financial results.
• Making Talent a Strategic Priority.  This article revisits the priorities of The War for Talent and presents more sobering facts on the growing disparity between how line executive's view HR and how HR views itself.
• Aligning Talent for Global Advantage, Boston Consulting Group
• Who is on the Front Line of Your War for Talent?:  The state of talent management is captured in this 2/2008 Russell Reynolds white paper

 Talent & M & A 

• The Talent Prize: A Strategic Outcome of Corporate Transactions:Towers Watson details how talent management can be integrated into the various phases of M & A.

 Analytics

• A Random Search for Excellence: Company's claims of sustained high performance may be nothing but luck according to Deloitte's latest research.  This is a challenging, must read piece for talent and HR leaders wo look to financially successful copmanies for guidance about the best HR practices.

• Irrational Expectations: How Statistical Thinking Can Lead to Better Decision Making:  The team from Deloitte helps us to understand whhy smart people often make the wrong decisions and how we can all make better ones.

Social Media

• Social Media in Talent Management: Fisher Rock Consulting has some great insights on how companies are using social media sites in talent management.

Human Resources

• NEW:  Building the High Flex, High Value HR Team.  This note by Doug Ready, President of ICEDR and a visiting professor at London Business School says that HR can best deliver value if it behaves as a "Stage 3" organization

• Creating People Advantage:  How to Address HR Challenges Worldwide through 2015,  Boston Consulting Group, April 2008.

• Aligned at the Top: How business and HR executives view today's most significant people challenges - and what they're doing about it, Deloitte and the Economist Intelligence Unit

• The Future of HR in Europe, Boston Consulting Group: The challenges are clear and HR isn't prepared for them according to BCG's analysis.
  

Leadership

• A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership where leaders will flourish., from Strategy + Business magazine (A Booz Allen Hamilton publication), Steven Wheeler, Walter McFarland, and Art Kleiner tell us how to craft an environment that supports great leadership
• Wharton Leadership Digest:  A bi-monthy newsletter from Wharton's Center for Leadership and Change Management.