At the other extreme I often encounter dedicated leaders, usually outside of HR, who say something like "I am so convinced that talent is the vital resource for our future that it's too important to leave to HR I would respectfully disagree. Yes, leaders cannot abdicate their personal responsibility for the human element of organizations, but they must also understand that HR management is not something that anyone can do, just by virtue of being a "human." When done correctly, HR should draw on the decades of evidence- based research and findings to avoid reinventing the wheel and to avoid being captive to long-debunked but popular myths and assumptions. The arrival of big data about work and the workforce should usher in an even richer era of evidence-grounded HR.