Everyone—from principal to marketing team lead—seems to be looking for that one-in-a-million “rockstar.” I mean, who isn’t these days? But everyone seems to think they have to find someone who is already that rockstar. As early as 2014, Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor, and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, noted in an interview that the future of talent wars depends on potential. Yet, when I talk to fellow hiring managers among the A/E/C community they all talk of a talent drought and their feeling that the only way to get top talent is to “poach” someone from another firm. (more…)