Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Where can you find talented employees? And how can you help everyone unlock their potential? Renowned economist Tyler Cowen and entrepreneur Daniel Gross explore the art and science of finding people with creative potential, enthusiasm, and insight.

Cowen and Gross introduce the reader to the main areas of research related to talent discovery. Including how to conduct interviews, how important intelligence is, how to assess personality and match personal traits to the job, how to evaluate talent in online interactions such as Zoom calls, why talented women are still underestimated and how to spot them, how to identify special talents in people with disabilities or presumed disadvantages, and how scouts can help in finding talent.

You’ll learn how to ask the right questions, conduct better interviews, create a trusting environment, read body language, and see the reality between the lines of a loud résumé.

This book will help you find talented and hardworking employees and take your company to a new level. It will also help you evaluate yourself—what qualities you need to develop to become a more valuable specialist.

Who is this book for?

For managers and HR professionals who want to find the right people.

For anyone who wants to understand what qualities they need to develop in order to become a more valuable specialist.