Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Dennis Carey · Dominic Barton · Ram Charan

Aug 2021 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Mike Lenz

About this audiobook

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent—and HR



Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid—and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment—companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive.



Turning conventional views on their heads, talent and leadership experts Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey provide leaders with a new and different playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent—for today's agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment—and for creating the HR function that business needs. Filled with examples of forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent (such as ADP, Amgen, BlackRock, Blackstone, Haier, ING, Marsh, Tata Communications, Telenor, and Volvo), as well as the juggernauts and the startups of Silicon Valley, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor that they apply to financial capital to their human capital—elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations.

About the author

Dennis Carey is vice chairman of Korn Ferry and the founder of The Prium and the CEO Academy. He has coauthored seven books on talent, strategy, CEO succession, and corporate governance, including Boards That Lead and Talent Wins. Dominic Barton, the Canadian ambassador to the People's Republic of China, has written more than eighty articles on capitalism, leadership, financial market development, Asia, history, and the issues and opportunities facing global and Asian markets. He is coauthor of three books, including Re-Imagining Capitalism. Ram Charan is an award-winning educator and consultant to senior business leaders and boards around the globe. He is one of the world's bestselling business book authors with over 2 million copies sold. His book with Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, Execution, spent 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Mike Lenz has been an audiobook narrator and voice actor for more than fourteen years. Having narrated titles in genres ranging from fiction, entertainment, science, and children's literature to Christian, business, self-help, and history, Mike loves bringing nonfiction and fiction stories to life.