03/14/2024

How to Create Talent Density

Why employers should embrace this approach

In this (long) article, I want to talk about a new concept called "talent density." And, as I pondered the concept, I think it represents one of the more important topics in management. So I hope you find it as interesting as I do.

First of all, the concept of talent density, pioneered by Netflix by the way, is simple.

Talent density is the quality and density of skills, capabilities and performance you have in your company.

So, if you have a company that is 100 percent high performers, you’re very dense. If you have a company that’s 20 percent high performers, you’re not very dense. It’s easy to understand, but hard to implement, because it gets to the point of how we define performance, how we select people to hire, how we decide who’s going to get promoted, how we decide who’s going to work on what project and how we’re going to distribute pay.

Please select this link to read the complete blog post from Josh Bersin.