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Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent
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Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

by Marshall Goldsmith, Louis Carter
December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
10h 1m
English
Pfeiffer
Content preview from Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent
INTRODUCTION
LOUIS CARTER
 
 
 
 
The assets of an enterprise can perhaps be divided into two parts: its people, and everything else. While some may measure the value of a company by its real estate, sales, inventories, supply chains, accounts receivable, brand recognition, and the thousands of other pieces that when assembled create an organization’s physical and market presence, it may also be said quite simply that a company consists of the human beings who use technology to improve the lives of their fellow citizens.
A dictionary definition of “talent” is people who possess a special aptitude or faculty. There is in this definition the whiff of creativity, of thinking outside the box, of a unique ability to solve a problem. Today’s intensely ...
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