Make Your People Before You Make Your Products: Using Talent Management to Achieve Competitive Advantage in Global Organizations

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Paul Turner has held professorial positions at universities in Birmingham, Cambridge and Nottingham. His previous roles were President of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Employee Care for the Convergys Corporation of Cincinnati, Group HR Business Director for Lloyds TSB, Vice President of the CIPD, a Director of BT, a Non-Executive Director of OPI and Blessing White and a General Manager for Plessey in both the UK and Asia Pacific.

Paul was Chair of European Human Asset and Talent for Tomorrow Conferences from 2009 to 2012. He was a judge on the Middle East HR Excellence (2013), European HR Excellence (2011) and the CIPD People Management Awards (2009). He has spoken at business conferences around the world and is the author or co-author of Meaning at Work: Employee Engagement in Europe (2012), Talent Management in Europe (2012), Workforce Planning (2010), The Admirable Company (2008), Talent (2007), Organisational Communication (2003) and HR Forecasting and Planning (2002). Paul has written articles for business journals and the international press.

Danny Kalman is a Talent Management (TM) professional with extensive experience in the field. He was TM Director at Panasonic Corporation until 2013 and during his 20 years with Panasonic he had both European and global practical experiences in developing their talents at all levels of the company. Danny both chairs and speaks at conferences on leadership and talent management around the world. He is an accredited ...