Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business

Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business

Many of the titles I recommend in Executive Insider focus on the talent marketplace from the perspective of the candidate. Other titles address leadership, innovation and knowledge that will help you advance in your career. Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business provides job candidates with insight into the talent market today and it has an important message for business leaders about talent management. As coauthor Hank Stringer says, "The true competitive difference for all companies is the talent that pushes the business forward."

Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business, by Stringer and fellow executive Rusty Rueff, explores how to locate, attract, and retain high quality talent in a global economy that makes it more difficult — and more important than ever — to have the best people contributing to the growth of your company.

The character of the job seeker has changed. Today's best people have radically new expectations and approaches to work. Rueff and Stringer reveal how competition, technology, retiring Baby Boomers and overseas outsourcing are changing the ways that both individuals and companies approach the talent market.

Candidates know at least as much about the companies they interview as the companies interviewing them — today it's all on the Internet. Employers need to be much more creative and comprehensive when looking for talent. Discover how candidates are using technology to evaluate opportunities, benchmark their compensation, and create new back channels of communication about work life at your company — and your competitors.

The authors recognize that it's no longer enough to have a "work force": you need a high-impact TALENT FORCE. As they note in their book, "At every level in the organization, finding, hiring and retaining Q-Talent (quality talent) is a huge challenge, fraught with intangibles — and critical to success. The Q-Talent imperative will never go away and those who tap into TALENT FORCE and make the effort, get it right and win in the marketplace."

Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business is an ExecuNet recommended resource available through the ExecuNet Career Management Bookshelf.