As we wend through the shifting, turbulent economic landscape that has defined the past few years, a recent focus has been companies' searches - at times desperate - to find enough employees to keep businesses running efficiently and sometimes running at all. Top-tier talent is always highly sought after, of course, but as Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross, authors of Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2022; 288 pages, $28.99) explain, even good companies aren't always terribly efficient at identifying just who those people are. Whether through poor, outdated processes or a lack of imagination, firms and the people within them who are in charge of hiring decisions often end up finding a lot of "good enough" - or even highly competent - people while missing out on the true change-makers. Those are the people with the "creative spark" to drive new ideas and initiatives and who inspire others to be better.
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