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Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage

by Edward E. Lawler III

Talent, the follow-up to the best-selling book Built to Change, shows how organizations can combine the right organization design, management practices, and talent to gain a critical performance edge. Talent offers an example-rich blueprint that succinctly maps out the best approach to organizing and leading a talent-focused organization. The organizational features needed to create a talent-focused organization are identified and their operation explained. Special attention is paid to:

  • Leadership
  • Corporate boards
  • Talent management
  • Performance management
  • Information and decision making

"Lawler has summarized his years of research and consulting in a hard-hitting and tremendously useful guide for the true people-centric organization."

David A. Nadler, vice chairman, Marsh & McLennan Companies

"Human Capital is the Holy Grail for creating sustainable competitive advantage, and Talent provides a step-by-step guide, chock full of the latest examples, to the strategies involved in achieving competitive advantage through people."

Peter Capelli, professor of management; director, the Center for Human Resources, the Wharton School

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