I talk with Ed Lawler who is a Director of the Center for Effective Organisations at the University of California. Ed was named as one of the country's leading management experts by Business Week magazine and we discuss

• Human capital is not just a talent issue
• What is talent?
• How easy is it for a traditional company to start putting people at the core of their strategy?
• How IBM changed their human capital strategy
• Why does business put huge emphasis on design externally but not on designing their internal structure?
• Leadership is an organisational capability not about gifted individuals
• How to become a human capital centric organisation
• What is the Star Model for Human Capital organisations?
• The importance of identify
• Why financial budgets should not be emphasised, that they should be used to give feedback on core competencies rather than running the business?
• The importance of building the company on degrees of separation from the customer

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