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The Talent War
- How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent
- Narrated by: Mike Sarraille, George Randle, Jocko Willink - foreword
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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Publisher's Summary
Foreword written by New York Times best-selling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink.
A must-listen for any business leader looking to build elite teams and win on talent.
Talent is the foundation of every success story from Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Main Street, and even on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. It's the hidden asset that never shows up on the balance sheet, despite being the driver for a company's true value. And now, in this hypercompetitive business environment, the war for talent has never been more important or more complex. Of 800 CEOs and 600 C-suite executives polled in 2019, the overwhelming majority cited the ability to attract and retain top talent as their number one concern.
For your organization to win, you need to attract and retain the best talent. But without the right strategy or mindset, you won't be able to do so - and you won't be able to compete. After all, your people, not your product or service, are your strongest competitive advantage.
When it comes to winning on talent, no one does it better or more consistently than the US Special Operations community. Their success comes down to their people and a widely held foundational belief: Talent + Leadership = Victory.
The Talent War explores how US Special Operations Forces assess, select, and develop their world-class talent. You'll learn how to adopt a talent mindset, the single greatest weapon you can possess in the war for talent. When your organization reflects this mindset, you will hire, train, and develop the right people and put them in the best positions to make decisions that allow you to retake the advantage and win the war.
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- Peter Marklew
- 17-01-2021
Setting up your team for success
The most important thing you can do as a Manager is to hire the right people.
The Talent War outlines and provides actionable activities to create the best strategy to discover, acquire, and retain talented people across all areas of your business.
Well worth the time to listen to.
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- Kristin Bass
- 01-02-2021
Must read!
Whichever side of the interview you are on. This is a great perspective on finding, preserving, and developing it.
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- The Domestic Goddess
- 03-01-2021
Semper Fi
Outstanding. Thank you, gentlemen. This is also a quality read or listen for those active duty service members transitioning to the civilian workforce. If you “turn the map around,” you can use this as a guidebook to create a personal advantage prior to even commenting the application process with an organization.
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- Fernando Gutierrez
- 01-01-2021
WOW! What an amazing book.
I have been in the consulting business for over ten years and this is the most practical and comprehensive book I have ever read on the value of talent. I am currently doing my doctoral studies on change and leadership and have an MBA in organizational leadership. I mention this only because I have read and learned different approaches on the subject and this one book contains the most important lessons I have learned into one book. It has taken me ten years studying this subject when it would have been accomplished reading this one book alone. Thank you to the authors for writing this. The field of talent acquisition is better with your phenomenal contribution.
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- Rachel Campbell
- 22-11-2020
Great guidance
So many takeaways.
Leatdership - humility is key.
Recruits - look for talent and character above skills.
This was a master class in taking care of the most important element of any company, the humans.
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- travis jacobs
- 12-11-2020
A absolute must read for every business leader
This is such a great book detailing practical steps that every business leader can employ to get the right people on the team.
As Jim Collins puts it "money is a commodity, talent is not"
The special forces community has mastered the art of "First who, then what" in the words of Jim Collins.
The business world is full of groups of individuals who can't work as a team, they are not a team, but just a loose collection of people who really don't like each other. This doesn't work out so well, just look at what has happened in the last 12 months.
Avoid the butts in seats mentality when it comes to hiring.
Avoid the "order taker" mentality where you just check the box and hire an individual.
Quality is better then quality and team play wins.
When it comes to talent acquisition have three options:
Good & Cheap, won't be fast
Fast & Good won't be cheap
Cheap & Fast won't be good
Do yourself and your team a favor and read this book and implement the strategies and tactics contained within.
You'll thank me later
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- Travis Vidaurri
- 20-12-2020
Must listen!
The information and lessons in this book are infallible. This is a must read for every level of your organization.
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- Mikekttx
- 19-12-2020
Must read for all business leaders.
if you are a leader in an organization you need to read or listen to this book. the EF group has done it again by taking complex ideas and boil them down so that the concepts are easily consumed. Thanks yall for producing this material.
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- M
- 03-12-2020
Excellent read and mindset shift foe those willing to challenge current HR Hiring Practices
This book challenges the status quo and calls out some major hiring practice deficiencies in Corporate America that are all too common. The authors did a great job great mixing data, special warfare lessons learned, and application to business scenarios to validate their contentions. If you are a CHRO, COO, CEO, CFO, etc... this is a MUST read!
Well done Mike Sarraille, George Randle, Jocko Wilinck, and Josh Cotton!
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- Karen Decker
- 21-11-2020
Look beyond your industry for ideas and practice to improve.
Mike and George do a great job making the talent practices of special operations available in a way to improve your process!
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- Nathan
- 17-11-2020
So timely - So Important - All Leaders Should Read This
Having lived the military life the authors speak about, then transitioned to a well-known multi-national bank - this is the most accurate depiction of the current state of talent selection and its vital importance to business to date.
It is also the most poignant set of solutions “out there” to actually address the issue of talent in companies, today. This book concisely illuminates the systemic problem AND gives easily adaptable solutions that can be realistically acted on to do something about it!
I promise you will think very differently when you read this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-11-2020
One to Avoid.
Repetitive, lacking substance but full of self adoration. I was very disappointed to the extent of frustration.
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-01-2021
"Remember, it is mindset that you are creating"
All in all good book. Best part of this book are examples on how you can make a giant mistake by listening the wrong people and having half baked information. This can lead to losing employee or employees in tree to four large companies.
"Remember, it is mindset that you are creating."
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