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Companies can't find the talent they need - and cities around the world are feeling the pressure to attract and retain a skilled workforce. Talent Wars goes inside the global battle for talent and what cities, regions, states, and countries are doing to attract and retain the workforce they need.
39 episodes · publishes fortnightly · latest 2026-06-23 · ~25 min/episode
Rank
#2547
Substance
64.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
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#2547 of 6186
Substance
Top 41%
outscores 59% of the index
Talent Wars: A Podcast By DCI ranks #2547 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 64.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and insight density. Dr. Jackson is a genuine practitioner running a real organisation with verifiable programs, a doctoral background in urban planning, and lived international experience - she is not a career thought-leader - but she has been in her managing director role only three years and operates at a regional nonprofit scale rather than at the corporate or policy level where decisions affecting large talent flows are made.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode surfaces a few genuinely useful data points (Michigan's 30-year net population growth driven entirely by immigration, the university H1B visa mechanism underpinning the EIR program) but spends the majority of its runtime on organizational overview, personal backstory, and generic economic-development framing that offers little a practitioner wouldn't already know.
“all of Michigan's net population growth in the last at that time, it may have been 20 years, but it's even extended into present day. Like 30 years was because of immigration”
“we connect them with the university because universities have unlimited H1B visas. So we connect them with the university where they can, for eight to ten hours a week, support research or classes”
The reframing of immigration as an economic development rather than social-justice issue is a legitimate and underused argument in practitioner circles, and the 'hidden talent in your backyard' point is a refreshing corrective to attraction-first thinking; however, both ideas circulate routinely in place-branding and regional-development spaces without being taken further here.
“How many Uber drivers are folks with engineers whose credentials just weren't welcomed or acknowledged”
“the demand is actually pretty constant. The competition has changed and the pathways have narrowed somewhat”
Dr. Jackson is a genuine practitioner running a real organisation with verifiable programs, a doctoral background in urban planning, and lived international experience - she is not a career thought-leader - but she has been in her managing director role only three years and operates at a regional nonprofit scale rather than at the corporate or policy level where decisions affecting large talent flows are made.
“I've only been a part of this family for about three years”
“we have the second largest global entrepreneur and residence program in the country”
A handful of concrete anchors exist (David Alvarez and Electrico ATV, ~40 founding stakeholders, 8 - 10 hours per week EIR university commitment, named peers St. Louis Mosaic and Global Cleveland) but the headline Michigan population statistic is hedged and imprecise, dollar figures and outcome metrics are absent, and the impact report is referenced but not quoted.
“all of Michigan's net population growth in the last at that time, it may have been 20 years, but it's even extended into present day. Like 30 years was because of immigration”
“There were nearly 40 stakeholder organizations involved, including business groups and ethnic chambers”
The host's questions follow a predictable onboarding arc (origin story → what is the org → barriers → success stories → advice) with no meaningful pushback, no probing of the vague Michigan statistic, and an ending that functions as a live advertisement; affirmations like 'Fantastic advice' and 'Very cool' dominate follow-up slots where harder questions could have lived.
“Fantastic advice.”
“I think it's such a key point that you touch on”
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