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1. |  Leadership in Action: What Every Leader Should Know about Expatriate Effectiveness By: Meena S. Wilson; Maxine A. Dalton Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-1999 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: What Every Leader Should Know about Expatriate Effectiveness
Expatriate assignments increase the talent pool from which the future senior leaders of the organization can be selected.
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2. |  Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (Collection), 2/e By: Vince Thompson; David I. Russo; Rusty Rueff; Hank Stringer; Cathy Fyock; Martha I. Finney Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 26-APR-2013 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (Collection), 2/e A brand new collection of
state-of-the-art talent management techniques
Breakthrough talent management
techniques! 5 authoritative books bring together the
state-of-the-art in finding, growing, and keeping world-class
people!
Talent is everything — and finding,
growing, and keeping the best talent has never been more difficult.
This 5-book collection brings together powerful new insights,
techniques, practices, and skills for improving the way you manage
talent in any organization, industry, or environment…
including the talent that matters most. (Yours!) In 17 Rules
Successful Companies...
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3. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Blind Dating as a Career Booster By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-FEB-2000 Insert Date: 18-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Blind Dating as a Career Booster
It amazes me that in these days of high-pressure headhunters and vast Web sites that list thousands of job openings, people continue to find some of the very best jobs by being open to an occasional blind date. The kind of blind date to which I am referring is vocational, not social.
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4. |  Leadership in Action - In Focus - CEO Selection - Room at the Top for Wise Choices Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-2002 Insert Date: 11-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action - In Focus - CEO Selection - Room at the Top for Wise Choices
It's not difficult to make the case that choosing a CEO is the most important decision an organization makes. Historically, the outgoing CEO has made this decision, but boards of directors are finding that an adviseand- consent role is no longer enough.
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5. |  Leadership in Action: In Focus - Talent Management - Engaging and Developing is Key to the Challenge By: Robin Athey; Robert Burnside Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: In Focus - Talent Management - Engaging and Developing is Key to the Challenge
Even the best recruitment tactics will not be enough to combat today's talent challenge. High compensation packages and bonuses are easily matched by competitors. Instead, a more discerning response is required.
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6. |  Leadership In Action: In Focus—Aquiring Talent—The Value of Hiring for Team Fit By: Davidand Creelman; Robert B. Kaiser Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership In Action: In Focus—Aquiring Talent—The Value of Hiring for Team Fit
When a work group's effectiveness depends on a mix of skills, expertise, and perspectives and the team members depend on one another, team fit should be part of the staffing decisions.
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7. |  By: Boris Groysberg Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 19-APR-2010 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Chasing Stars
It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be. After examining the careers of more than a thousand star analysts at Wall Street investment banks, and conducting more than two hundred frank interviews, Groysberg comes to a striking conclusion: star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance. Their earlier excellence appears...
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8. |  By: Dan L. Ward; Rob Tripp; Bill Maki Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 15-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 12-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Positioned
From the C-suite to the sales force to the ground floor, downtime is deadly. When a job opens or turns over, organizations must adjust seamlessly. In Positioned, some of the world’s best people strategists examine how best to address the constant challenge of having the right people available when needed.
Thought leaders including Dave Ulrich, John Boudreau, James Walker, Jac Fitz-enz, Peter Howes, Dan Hilbert, and Naomi Stanford weigh in on the future of strategic staffing, virtual workplaces, disruptive technologies, globalization, and what practices will—and will not—help organizations...
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9. |  The Leadership in Action Series: On Selecting, Developing, and Managing Talent By: Stephen Rush; Roland B. Smith Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 27-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Leadership in Action Series: On Selecting, Developing, and Managing Talent
Even in the midst of economic upheaval, organizations need to recognize that selecting, developing, and managing the right leadership talent will help them not only survive but thrive when the economy eventually rebounds. Despite the fact that there are millions in the ranks of the jobless, there remains an acute shortage of talent. So how can organizations best select, develop, and manage their talent? This collection of sixteen pieces-written by the Center for Creative Leadership's highly experienced and knowledgeable faculty members and researchers as well as by prominent practitioners...
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10. |  Knowledge Management:The Death of Wisdom By: Arnold Kransdorff Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 24-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Knowledge Management:The Death of Wisdom
This book is about an unintended—and unnoticed—consequence that is needlessly costing commerce and industry an unimaginable amount of money. It was in the early 1980s that someone smart thought that the flexible labor market would allow employers to quickly adapt their workforce to the new industrial technology-led revolution. It did, but the trouble is that nobody thought of the downside consequences— short jobs tenure and the continual loss of the organizations’ unique, hard-won and expensively acquired knowledge and experience. Inside, you’ll learn how employers can continue to take...
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11. |  How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team By: Patrick McCuller Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 14-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 05-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team
Want a great software development team? Look no further. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team is a field guide and instruction manual for finding and hiring excellent engineers that fit your team, drive your success, and provide you with a competitive advantage. Focusing on proven methods, the book guides you through creating and tailoring a hiring process specific to your needs. You'll learn to establish, implement, evaluate, and fine-tune a successful hiring process from beginning to end.
Some studies show that really good programmers can...
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12. |  Technology-Enhanced Assessment of Talent By: Nancy T. Tippins; Seymour Adler Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-APR-2011 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Technology-Enhanced Assessment of Talent
This new volume provides research-based guidelines to help practitioners make better decisions on using technology to assess talent at all levels of the organization and for a full range of applications, from entry-level selection to senior-level succession and talent management. The book reviews of the various ways technology can enhance the administrative ease, credibility, validity, and cost effectiveness of assessments used by organizations in selection and other candidate evaluation processes. It also addresses measurement issues, examines case studies of current practice, and...
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13. |  The Executive’s Guide to Consultants: How to Find, Hire and Get Great Results from Outside Experts By: David Fields Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 16-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 20-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Executive’s Guide to Consultants: How to Find, Hire and Get Great Results from Outside Experts
Maximize Your Return on Expertise Research shows a high proportion of consultants fails to deliver results on time, on budget, and on target. Rare is the project that exceeds your expectations.But help is here. The Executive’s Guide to Consultants explains how to ensure that every project delivers measurable benefits every time. This book will help you find experts, invest wisely, accelerate change, and achieve your most important goals by tapping into the genius of others.
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14. |  By: Herbert Greenberg; Patrick Sweeny Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 07-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 17-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
The completely revised edition of the landmark sales management classic updated for today’s competitive business environment How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer, Second Edition will keep your organization a step ahead of the competition.
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15. |  The Professional Recruiter's Handbook, 2nd Edition By: Ann Swain Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Professional Recruiter's Handbook, 2nd Edition As recruitment becomes ever more important to a business achieving its corporate objectives, recruiters must raise their game, delivering new and innovative solutions while also doing their job well and achieving the results needed for their clients and candidates. The Professional Recruiter's Handbook, second edition, is a complete guide to achieving success in recruitment. The authors explore the techniques used by the most successful recruiters, both agency and client-side, to understand what creates excellence in recruitment. Containing up-to-date practical advice on attracting the right...
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16. |  Success for Hire: Simple Strategies to Find and Keep Outstanding Employees By: Alexandra Levit Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Success for Hire: Simple Strategies to Find and Keep Outstanding Employees
From candidate searches to growth plans for long-term employee retention, author Alexandra Levit, details how to create a successful employee acquisition program. Success for Hire: How to Find and Keep Outstanding Employees has appeal for any business professional who needs to hire the right person for the right job in a 24/7 global business environment.
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17. |  Management Level Psychometric Assessments By: Mike Bryon Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 26-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management Level Psychometric Assessments With intense competition for top management jobs and increased pressure on organizations to select the best candidates, more and more firms are now using challenging psychometric tests as part of their recruitment and assessment procedures. Also used to identify management potential in existing staff, tests are increasingly used to select the weakest employees when job cuts beckon.
Management Level Psychometric Assessments offers more types of assessment than any other management testing book. Ideal for managers applying for supervisory roles or jobs on the board, for promotions as well as...
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18. |  By: Brian Tracy Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 01-OCT-2001 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hire and Keep the Best People speakers and author of the bestselling books Maximum Achievement and The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success
Offers 21 proven strategies that will give you a competitive edge in selecting and keeping excellent people
Concise, handy, quick to read and easy to apply
From corner cubicle to corporate suite, managers today say their biggest concern is the competition for talent. The critical constraint on the growth and success of any business is the ability to attract and keep excellent people. Unfortunately, very few managers have been thoroughly trained in the process of...
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19. |  Brilliant Questions For Great Interviewers By: Dee Walker Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 10-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 30-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Brilliant Questions For Great Interviewers Have you ever hired the wrong person? Ever felt under prepared and the interview has ended up as a chat? Lost for words and not sure what to ask next? Hiring the right person for the job is crucial in any business. Brilliant Questions for Great Interviewers is designed to help you find the very best candidate for the job. Youll learn the best way to source candidates, select them for interview and interview well. Youll gain the confidence to keep asking questions until you have ALL the information you need and will never be stuck for a question...
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20. |  High Performance Hiring: Select the Best Every Time, Third Edition By: Robert W. Wendover Publisher: Axzo Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: High Performance Hiring: Select the Best Every Time, Third Edition
Select the Best Every Time
A lot has changed when it comes to hiring today – the importance of diversity, the use of e-mail and other technology, and the sheer size of the applicant pool. But the process for success is still the same. Announcing openings. Interviewing applicants. Choosing and retaining the best talent. Learn how to do it all more effectively in today's workplace with this indispensible guide.
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