Book description
The Talent Masters itself stems from a unique marriage of
talents. Bill Conaty, in the course of a 40-year career at General
Electric, worked closely with CEOs Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt to build
the company's internationally renowned talent machine. Ram Charan is
the legendary advisor to companies around the world. Here they combine
their unparalleled experience and insight to create a blueprint for
talent development, and to show how critical it is to the continuing
and future success of every business.
The essential skill that lasts. Why talent management
guarantees future results in a way that short-term financial success
and market share cannot.
Secrets of the masters. How world-class companies achieve
their stellar performance decade after decade by finding and nurturing
leadership talent.
The importance of knowledge. Why knowing and understanding
your talent and reviewing it systematically is the foundation for
creating a steady, self-renewing stream of leaders for all levels of
your organization - from first-line supervisors to the CEO.
The Talent Masters tool kit. Specific guidelines that
will help you assess and improve your company's talent mastery capabilities.
BILL CONATY, long recognized as a world leader in his field,
recently retired as senior vice president for human resources at
General Electric, the company consistently ranked as without peer in
developing world-class leaders. The management development and
training programs that Conaty engineered provided GE with one of the
world's most talent-rich management benches. Conaty has served as
chairman of the National Academy of Human Resources and was named as a
Distinguished Fellow, the organization's highest honor. He currently
serves as a personal advisor to the CEOs of companies around the
world, including P&G, Boeing, Dell, Goodyear, LG Electronics
(Korea), and UniCredit Bank (Italy).
RAM CHARAN is a highly sought after business advisor and
speaker, famous among senior executives for his uncanny ability to
solve their toughest business problems. For more than 35 years, Dr.
Charan has worked behind the scenes with top executives at some of the
world's most successful companies, providing advice that is
down-to-earth and relevant and that takes into account the real-world
complexities of business. Dr. Charan is also the coauthor of
Execution, The Game-Changer and Confronting Reality,
and the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know,
Know-How, and Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty.
