Talent

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

By: Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the authors.

The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.

How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?

Obsessed with these questions, renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross set out to study the art and science of finding talent at the highest level: the people with the creativity, drive, and insight to transform an organization and make everyone around them better.

Cowen and Gross guide the reader through the major scientific research areas relevant for talent search, including how to conduct an interview, how much to weight intelligence, how to judge personality and match personality traits to jobs, how to evaluate talent in online interactions such as Zoom calls, why talented women are still undervalued and how to spot them, how to understand the special talents in people who have disabilities or supposed disabilities, and how to use delegated scouts to find talent. Talent appreciation is an art, but it is an art you can improve through study and experience.

Identifying underrated, brilliant individuals is one of the simplest ways to give yourself an organizational edge, and this is the book that will show you how to do that. Talent is both for people searching for talent and for those who wish to be searched for, found, and discovered.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

©2021 Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Prefer to Rate Rather than Leave a Detailed Review

Prefer to Rate Rather than Leave a Detailed Review. A few key insights. Could be more succinct.

A welcome perspective on how-to.

I struggled through the statistical sections, but persevered because of rational importance. I enjoyed it.

Lots of interesting points

Enjoyable read with lots of observations and points that leave you reflecting after putting the book down.

Entertaining but not useful

There was no point in the listen that I was wanting to write something down or a light bulb went off in my head. Its just a deeper look into common sense ideas about what talent seekers should be looking for. If your looking for a niche talent maybe try this book if not just use your own mechanisms for talent searching and learn along the way.

Good

I liked it. However not every chapter spoke directly to me. I would recommend this to anyone curious about the topic of great tallent.