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Why Human Talents Management ?
View that people are resources is long out dated The prevailing view of people is one rooted in finances.
Resources – money, stocks and other assets – are finite and have an expiration date. People’s capabilities
and ideas, however, are infinite. And by the prevailing use of the term resources in business, people are
not resources.
As human beings, we can draw on an infinite amount of possibilities, ideas and apply them through our
always-unfolding experiences learned from life. We use our intellect, our collaborative natures to tease out

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nuances in new business ideas or revolutionize markets through a new product offering. It is silly to say
this, but necessary for the point, but money, stocks or other finite assets cannot revolutionize markets.
People revolutionize markets. Assets are merely a means to such an end. Money without people is
useless.
The viewpoint that believes people are a means to an end has run its course. We are seeing employees
refusing to play by the tired rules from the previous century. They are leaving jobs to start their own work.
They are leaving companies that treat them as a finite asset in hopes of finding someplace where they are
valued.
Sure CEOs and their counterparts are slow to acknowledge this. Too many are chasing finite resources for
short-term gain. We will, however, see alarmed faces and panicked actions from decision makers when
they cannot get the talent they want because of arcane policies that treat people as finite resources.
The organizations who want to tap into the infinite possibilities that exist between each of our two ears will
find a more willing collaborator in employees.
The nuance in such a change is that a relationship exists between manager and employee unlike what is
familiar and broken today: boss tells employee what to do; employee complies. Or worse, employee shares
ideas and manager takes credit or smothers ideas.
People are not resources. People are who turn resources into more resources. It is people who transform
markets or turn businesses into sensations. People are not a means to an end. That is merely short-termed
thinking that has soured capitalism, poisoned too many corporate cultures, and lured decision-makers into
abandoning their humanity and ethics for the promise of riches.
My book titled “Humantalents Management was published in the year 2000,which suggested the replacement of the
term human resource management with “human talents management