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Talent Magnet

How to Attract and Keep the Best People

Mark Miller
Berrett-Koehler, 2018

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7

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  • Applicable
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  • Inspiring

Recommendation

Competition for talent is now so intense that the best potential employees can be highly selective. Because top talent can pick and choose, personnel issues have become more complex and companies are facing a shortage of top-quality recruits. Mark Miller’s business fable, intertwined with a subplot about a group of job-hunting teens, illustrates how a fictitious firm recruits the best prospects. The fable’s factual basis came from Miller’s firm’s research, including hundreds of interviews. The characters and the dialogue are a little wooden, but they’re meant to be archetypes, and Miller deploys them to provide useful lessons about what motivates top prospects.

Take-Aways

  • The competitive employment marketplace makes it difficult for companies to secure the best people.
  • Engaging top talent increases your company’s likelihood of success.
  • Organizations that supply everything top talents want can become “talent magnets.”

About the Author

Chick-fil-A executive Mark Miller also wrote the bestsellers Leaders Made Here and Chess Not Checkers.

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    R. W. 2 years ago
    This is a good summary. Another one that gives me ideas for my management research paper.
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    M. X. 3 years ago
    Really confused why this is a 7. this is a really good summary :)