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Bench Strength
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Bench Strength

by Robert W. Barner
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h
English
AMACOM
Content preview from Bench Strength
CHAPTER 8
T
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OF
D
EPLOYMENT
Nothing is more difficult than the art of
maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver
is to make the devious route the most direct
and turn misfortune to advantage.
—S
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T
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The best t alent strategies are useless without sol id executio n. For
the talent stra tegis t, executio n takes the form of leadership deploy-
ment—the abili ty to levera ge an organi zatio n’s stronge st lead ers
against its biggest b usiness cha lleng es. Deploym ent is one of the
talent ma nager ’s most underutilized weapons. Man y of us get so
caught up in analyzin g the front-end co mponents of talen t mana ge-
ment, such as leadership recru ...
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ISBN: 9780814429402