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Talent

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Vital and impactful strategies on how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. Find the people really capable of making a difference!

How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?

The art and science of talent search get at exactly those questions. Renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross guide the reader through the major scientific research areas relevant for talent search, including how to conduct an interview, how much to weight intelligence, how to judge personality and match personality traits to jobs, how to evaluate talent in on-line interactions such as Zoom calls, why talented women are still undervalued and how to spot them, how to understand the special talents in people who have disabilities or supposed disabilities, and how to use delegated scouts to find talent.

Identifying underrated, brilliant individuals is one of the simplest ways to give yourself an organizational edge, and this is the audiobook that will show you how to do that. It is both for people searching for talent, and for those being searched and wish to understand how to better stand out.

(P) 2022 Macmillan Audio

Critics Review

Talent is what happens when two brilliant and profoundly iconoclastic minds apply their imagination to one of the hardest of all business problems: the search for good people. I loved it.
Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia and The Tipping Point
Talent is everything―whether in investing and building startups, or in other creative endeavors. Between product, market, and people, I've always bet on the last one as the biggest predictor of success. But while talent may be everywhere, it's unevenly distributed, and hard to 'find.' So how do we better discover, filter, and match the best talent with the best opportunities? This book shares how, based on both scientific research and the authors' own experiences. The future depends on this know-how.
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
The most important job of any leader is to find individuals with a 'creative spark,' and the potential to discover, invent and build the future. If you want to learn the art and science of spotting and empowering exceptional people, Talent is brimming with fresh insights and actionable advice.
Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google
Two of the premier talent spotters working today, Cowen and Gross have written the definitive history of identifying talent. Anyone who is interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, or the roots of America's start-up economy must read this book.
Christina Cacioppo, CEO and co-founder of Vanta
I do not know of any skills more worth developing than the ability to find exceptional undeveloped talent. I have spent many years trying to get good at that, and I was still astonished by how much I learned reading this book.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Author Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
Narrator LJ Ganser
Duration 9 hours and 13 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529376456
Format Audiobook
Publisher John Murray Press
Genre Business and Management, Management: leadership and motivation, Personality traits, Personnel and human resources management, Popular psychology
Availability AU, GB, IE

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