Organizational Sherlocks, a Business Psychology podcast
S3Ep17: Stop Guessing, Start Hiring Smarter: The 3-Lever Talent Framework Every Leader Needs
May 15, 202650 min · 9,106 words
Show notes
When a capability gap appears in your organization, you have three levers to pull: Build the talent internally, Buy it through external hiring, or Borrow it through fractional or contract work. In Episode 17, hosts Morgan Ashworth (MSIOP, MLS) and Dr. Elizabeth Fleming (PsyD) take you inside the Build, Buy, and Borrow levers — what they are, when to use them, and what quietly goes wrong when organizations rely on instinct instead of strategy.
Highlighted moments
When a capability gap opens in your organization, you have three options. Build the capability from within, buy it through a new hire, or borrow it through a contractor or fractional resource. Most organizations default to one answer without ever asking the question, though.
“your high performers do not always equate to being your high potential employees, right? And so when you think about it, just because someone has been there a long time or consistently gets their work done and does it well, it doesn't mean that that potential is exactly the same.”
“if you're not willing to resource or provide resources for development, you're really not choosing to build in the way that we are describing it, it's really more just of a delaying the buy, right?”
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