The truth about talent: a guide to building a dynamic workforce, realizing potential and helping leaders succeed

In this new book, Jacqueline Davis and Jeremy Kourdi argue that organizationsare failing to realize the simple truth about talent: they are misunderstanding their people, making flawed choices and allowing the true potential of their workforce to go unused and unfulfilled. Understanding the truth about talentin all its forms is a vital step in developing an organization and ensuring long-term, sustainable success. A core part of their thesis is that organizations should recognize that people at different stages of their career and with different experiences and aspirations need to developed and engaged in different ways. The book provides a practical guide explaining how to segment the workforce, why, what to expect when you do, and how to ensure that this approach succeeds. Key themes in the book are: You cant manage talent: it is mercurial, easily bored, opinionated and often lost. The talented few are the overwhelming priority: while there is a top 10% of high performing employees people who look good, work the system, attract the best investment and get to the top focusing your attention exclusively on the top 10% while neglecting the rest is clearly flawed. Invest in your core, the talent right under your nose. Getting people to fulfill their potential is a global challenge: if you dont invest in your peoples skills, someone else will, and they are on the other side of the world. India and China continue to develop and their growth is no longer aboutcheap labour, outsourced call centres and mass manufacturing. Their economic model is shifting with more consumers, a growing middle class and more millionaires, scientists, research and development. The growth is sucking talent fromthe West. Technical specialists matter as much or more than generalists. Why do we still lavish our attention on elite general managers. Specialists are invariably a firms source of differentiation and competitive advantage. Its timeto take them out of the backroom and on the catwalk. Talent, development and people management are part of the same issue: we need to find new ways of adapting to engage our people and help them to succeed.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-74882-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés