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  • By: Orly Lobel
  • Narrated by: Ginger White
  • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

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Talent Wants to Be Free

By: Orly Lobel
Narrated by: Ginger White
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Publisher's Summary

This timely audiobook challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today's innovation ecosystems.

In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Presented is a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will help talent flow, creativity, and growth.

©2013 Orly Lobel (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks

Critic Reviews

"A compelling argument for a new set of attitudes toward human capital that will sharpen our competitive edge and fuel the creative sparks in any environment.” (Publishers Weekly

“Anyone interested in promoting innovation should read Orly Lobel's powerful analysis.” (Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School) 

"A how-to guide for economic growth in the twenty-first century." (Jason Mazzone, author of Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law

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