The Truth about Talent (eBook)

A guide to building a dynamic workforce, realizing potential and helping leaders succeed

Jacqueline Davies, Jeremy Kourdi (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-66237-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this new book, Jacqueline Davies and Jeremy Kourdi argue that organizations are 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 talent in 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.

Jacqueline Davies is a highly experienced and respected executive with significant, in-depth experience of leadership development and talent management issues. Past roles include Global Head of Learning and Development with Lloyds TSB/HBOS, Head of Learning and Organizational Development at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and as an executive with HSBC.

Jeremy Kourdi is a writer and business consultant. His experience includes commercial leadership, writing and publishing expertise gained with leading brands, professional institutions and business schools. Clients include The Economist Group, KPMG, HSBC Group, London Business School, IMD, PwC and the Chartered Management Institute. Jeremy has held the post of Senior Vice-President with the Economist Group, leading international teams based in London and Vienna and expanding the conference business of this premium-value brand. He has also work as Head of Publishing and Research at the Chartered Management Institute and has established several successful publishing imprints.

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Key themes in the book are: 1. The need to revaluate how people contribute and create value in today's economy it is about knowledge, innovation and relationships today rather than executive potential tomorrow. 2. Challenging the conventional wisdom that talent refers to a 'special few' rather than the 'vital many'. Perhaps we don't have enough because we keep looking in the wrong places and doing the wrong things? 3. Conditions facing organizations are tough and competitive and markets are turbulent. To withstand this, we need to build talented organizations and talented individuals. 4. Interdependence between people within and across organizations is critical. The way that each individual relies on each other and how talent is realised through social and team ties makes a decisive, defining difference. 5. Individuals control when and who their potential is shared with. The idea that an organization can manage talent and potential is an outdated conceit. 6. The nature of work itself matters hugely. The extent to which it is stimulating and engaging and how people can make the connection with what they do and the wider difference it makes is vital. 7. The way talent is generated is affected by the whole 'ecology' of an organization its sense of purpose, rituals, the behaviour of its leaders, how it hires and how it fires people all influence the way talent is generated.

Autor

Jacqueline Davies is a respected HR leader with 18 years' experience in strategic human resource management. She has led the global talent agendas in two FTSE top 10 companies and driven executive integration programmes for two of the largest acquisitions in corporate history. Jacqueline is a recognised thought leader in how companies can deploy talent strategies to achieve commercial advantage. Jacqueline is a non-executive director of two charities and has recently been appointed to the Advisory Board on Leadership Ethics at the Bristol Business School. She can be contacted at [e-mail]. Jeremy Kourdi is a writer and executive coach. His experience includes commercial leadership, writing and coaching expertise gained with leading brands. During his career he has worked in Europe, North America and the Middle East with a range of organizations including HSBC, Pearson, London Business School, IMD and he was Senior Vice-President with The Economist Group. For further information visit www.LeadershipExpertise.com.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: argue • Book • Business & Management • Career • Choices • Core • Different • forms • Human Resource Management • Jacqueline • longterm • misunderstanding • New • organization • Organizations • Part • People • Personalmanagement • Potential • Simple Truth • STEP • Talent • Thesis • True • Truth • Unfulfilled • Vital • Wirtschaft u. Management • Workforce
• ISBN-10: 0-470-66237-9 / 0470662379
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-66237-3 / 9780470662373