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Noting the importance of talent to the success of a corporation, the authors offer a guide for CEOs to acquiring, managing, and deploying talent as effectively as they deploy financial capital. They identify seven steps in the process: forging a group of people to lead the transformation; developing a roster of top talent in the company; using software technology to improve the ability to identify, recruit, and support talent; ensuring that the board of directors is aligned with and supportive of the effort to have talent drive strategy; creating a more horizontal, flexible structure that connects and multiplies talent through ability, platforms, and meaning; reinventing human resources; scaling up people’s talent in rewarding and productive ways; creating a mergers and acquisition strategy for talent; and implementing the plan. Charan is a business adviser, author, teacher, and speaker who specializes in corporate governance. Barton is a global managing partner who advises clients in various industries and is the author of articles on capitalism, leadership, financial market development, and other topics. Carey recruits board directors, CEOs, and their direct reports and writes about various business topics. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. Typical HR talent-planning processes (which are too expensive and take too long to implement) are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid--and business strategy is no longer about planning years out but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment--companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive.Written for CEOs and leaders across the organization, Talent Wins provides a much-needed framework for transforming how companies acquire, manage, and deploy talent--for today's agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment--and for creating the HR function the business needs. With examples of companies that are well along the path of reinventing their approaches to talent, such as Amgen, AT&T, BlackRock, GE, Haier, J&J, and PepsiCo, as well as the juggernauts and the start-ups of Silicon Valley, this book provides leaders with a seven-part plan for:Integrating talent and capitalMaking talent drive strategyDesigning and redesigning the work of the organizationScaling up individual talentCreating an M&A strategy for talentReinventing the role of HRLiving the talent agendaProviding deep, expert insight and advice for what needs to change and how to change it, Talent Wins is the definitive book for reimagining and creating the talent-driven organization.
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