21st Century Talent Spotting (Harvard Business Review)

Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, a senior adviser at the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder, reports on how business is changing too rapidly to predict what competencies employees will need even a few years out. The question now is not what skills they have; it's whether they have the potential to learn new ones.

This article was first published in the June 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.