An article in the autumn issue of “strategy + business” magazine ("The Talent Innovation Imperative" by DeAnne Aguirre, Laird Post and Sylvia Ann Hewlett) says that many companies are held back by an “old model of talent management” that is “grounded in 20^th century assumptions about people and the workplace.” These companies have not adjusted to the new global priorities and to a workforce that is largely made up of women and non-white employees. The authors note that white males now make up less than 20 percent of the educated global talent pool and potential managers in North America and Western Europe are outnumbered “more than three-to-one by their counterparts from the rest of the world.”