The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People before Numbers

摘要

What enables certain companies to outstrip their competitors? Generally speaking, it's the talent they have working for them. But also, crucially, it's the effective recognition and management of that talent by the company's leadership, the "talent masters" who understand that grooming leaders can be more science than art and is something to be done systematically rather than desultorily. The talent behind The Talent Masters is formidable: Bill Conaty was the senior vice president for human resources at General Electric (GE), where he presided over management devel opment and training programs that were the envy of the corporate world and were unmatched in producing leaders;