The Talent Advantage How to Attract and Retain the Best and the Brightest [Hardcover]

A fun and creative guide to keeping customers ecstatically happy

Businesses are used to competing for market share, inexpensive labor, and time-to-market, but today's biggest competition among top firms may be the war for top talent. Today's best organizations are reaching across traditional geopolitical and cultural boundaries to attract and retain the best and brightest workers. In The Talent Advantage, authors Weiss and MacKay tap into their long experience as experts in talent recruitment and retainment to explain why today's business leaders must take firm control of the talent hunting process to ensure great hires. Here, they show leaders exactly how to do that.

Introduction.

About the Authors.

Chapter 1 Why Leaders Must Fight the Battle.

Human Resources is to Talent Search as Airplane Food is to Fine Dining.

Strong leaders attract strong people.

Threatened subordinates sink the ship.

Staff functions are, well, staff functions.

Would YOU be hired by your own HR department today?

Chapter 2 The Five Failings of Non-Extraordinary Leaders (and their cures).

The Leaders’ Dysfunctions Become Everyone’s Dysfunctions.

Priorities: Not making the priority list.

Assessment: Not knowing it if you tripped over it.

Exemplar: Setting the wrong example (cognitive dissonance).

Connections: Career development divorces succession planning.

Women: Not understanding male filters.

Chapter 3 The Three Priorities of the Talent-Seeking Leader.<lC“