Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

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1 The max mix gathering is a microcosm of the company or a minimum number of representatives at the maximum levels within the company. The microcosm reflects the locations, cultures, diversities, and systems of the company, and can answer all questions that would be presented to the system as a whole. For transformations, the microcosm should be at least 20 percent of the whole organization to generate a tipping point when re-integrated into the whole system.

2 CES and the external consultants also co-created a new formula for change, based in part on the Richard Beckhard DVF formula on creating a collective paradigm shift.

(D * A * F * B) = T > CR

“D” means allowing participants to voice dissatisfactions with the current state. “A” ...