Book description
Campbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology.
Companies are gaining advantage through a new capabilitystrategic use of external expertsmade possible by technology and the globalization of talent. Leaders everywhere recognize that lean,” agile,” and fast” strategies require new ways to access and leveragewithout owningkey talent to fill critical gaps. As managers seek nontraditional sources of strategic talent and experiment with fast, flexible ways of engaging these experts, they need a new roadmap.
This book delivers that roadmap. It tells you how to assess, choose, attract, develop, support, and retain your external talent. Authored by thought leaders and bestselling authors in leadership and talent management who teach and consult globally, Agile Talent reveals how companies such as Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Google, IBM, and Bain Capital organize and manage new forms of talent in innovative ways. Supported by survey data and packed with tools and templates for applying these ideas, this book is the ultimate guide for winning the next war for talent.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith
- 1 ACHIEVING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH AGILE TALENT
- 2 DEFINING THE OPPORTUNITY
- 3 REFINING THE STRATEGY
- 4 ATTRACTING AND WELCOMING AGILE TALENT
- 5 ENSURING PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE
- 6 ENGAGING AND COLLABORATING WITH YOUR TALENT
- 7 LEADING AGILE TALENT
- 8 LEADING THE CHANGE
- 9 TURNING WHAT WE KNOW INTO WHAT WE DO
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: Agile Talent
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781625277640
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