TY - BOOK AU - Davies,Jacqueline AU - Kourdi,Jeremy TI - The truth about talent: a guide to building a dynamic workforce, realizing potential and helping leaders succeed SN - 9781119206668 AV - HF5549.5.M63 D38 2010 U1 - 658.3/14 22 PY - 2010/// CY - San Francisco, Calif. PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Employee motivation KW - Personnel management KW - Ability KW - Personnel Management KW - Aptitude KW - Personnel KW - Motivation KW - Direction KW - fast N1 - The Truth About Talent; Contents; Introduction; 1 We Are All Talent Now; 2 A New Way of Thinking About Talent; 3 Talent Diversity: You Need to Believe It to See It; 4 Strategy -- Beginning With the End in Mind; 5 Hire and Wire: Developing Your Organization's Talent Ecology; 6 Getting Personal: The Workforce of One; 7 Engaging With Talent; 8 The Meaning of Work; 9 Leading for Talent; 10 Techniques for Realizing Talent in Your Whole Workforce; Conclusion: Creating a Talent Flywheel; Appendix: Researching the Truth About Talent; Index N2 - "Understanding the truth about talent in all forms is a vital step in developing a long-term, sustainable, successful organization. The Truth about Talent explores the different ways for organizations to recognize talent from people at different stages of their career, as well as from people with different experiences and aspirations. With a forward-thinking approach, this resource provides qualitative and quantitative international research on talent management and employee engagement, as well as an original survey of executives. This book shows the fundamental changes in line to enhance employees and the economy"--; "In this new book, Jacqueline Davis 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"-- UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119206668 ER -