 | Talent (Tom Peters Essentials) by Tom Peters
Buy used from: $0.01 A thoroughly enjoyable book that offers a take on the topic from the changing global economy. Insightful.
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 | StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths by Tom Rath
Buy new: $13.41 / Used from: $5.50 A highly personal approach to learn about talent, namely by discovering your own. Recommended.
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 | Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $0.01 This is the book that started the focus on applying and building personal strenghts. Easy to read and an excellent introduction to the topic.
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 | Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $4.50 Follow-up reading "Now, Discover Your Strengths" with this book and learn to apply the insights to your work.
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 | Talent : Making People Your Competitive Advantage by Edward E. Lawler III
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.99 Excellent book, takes on talent development from a broad strategic HR perspective.
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 | Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty by Peter Cappelli
Buy new: $25.52 / Used from: $19.98 With a keen focus on succession planning, Peter Cappelli is on the forefront of strategic HR.
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 | The Talent Management Handbook: Creating Organizational Excellence by Identifying, Developing, and Promoting Your Best People by Lance Berger
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $29.19 A great text any respectable university would deem mandatory on the topic.
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 | The Strategic Development of Talent by William J. Rothwell
Buy new: $37.96 / Used from: $32.89 What any respectable university would deem mandatory on the topic for Learning & Development students. The book has a strong section on curriculum design and development.
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 | Positive Psychology in Practice
Buy new: $78.07 / Used from: $66.49 An amazing book that gives the broadest possible introduction to the field of positive psychology. The field that sparked off such great thinkers as Buckingham, Clifton and Rath.
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 | Strengths-Based Leadership by Tom Rath
Buy new: $12.47 / Used from: $10.98 This book applies the field of strengths based psychology (one of the field of positive psychology) to leadership development. Highly recommended, if only for the reason that leaders do learn remarkable different from non-leaders.
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 | First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $2.37 If you're into succession planning or leadership development in any shape or form, this book is a recommended read.
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 | Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom by Dorothy Leonard
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $4.46 An insightful book that offers some concrete tools to transfer knowledge (deep smarts) in organizations.
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $11.75 / Used from: $10.00 What is talent really? Refer to Malcolm Gladwell for a refreshing answer.
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 | What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $9.85 This book is to talent development what "in search of excellence" was to organizational development.
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 | Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization by Lowell L. Bryan
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $2.39 Look here for some very concrete examples of talent development strategies.
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 | Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, 2nd Edition (Book & CD) by David Cooperrider
Buy new: $59.00 / Used from: $70.00 There may be undiscovered potential in an appreciative approach to talent management and talent development.
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