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Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Tyler Cowen (Author), Daniel Gross (Author), L. J. Ganser (Narrator),
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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.

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  1. Listening Length
    9 hours and 12 minutes
  2. Author
    Tyler Cowen, see all
  3. Narrator
    L. J. Ganser
  4. Audible release date
    May 17, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Macmillan Audio
  7. ASIN
    B08TZ14B6S
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 9 hours and 12 minutes
Author Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross
Narrator L. J. Ganser
Audible.com Release Date May 17, 2022
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B08TZ14B6S
Best Sellers Rank #80,549 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#610 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Books)
#709 in Job Hunting & Career Guides
#797 in Business Management (Audible Books & Originals)

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Louise Foerster
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-Opening, Excellent Guide
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022
TALENT by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross is like no other business book I've ever read: funny, creative, adept with the toughest problems leaders and organizations face in attracting, building, and supporting the best individuals for their enterprise. Their hard-won expertise is deep, broad, and draws in the best, the brights, most aware leaders to comment on what they've done, both what's worked and what has not. Early in the book, the authors encourage us to look at the entire world through the lens of talent, not simply assigning it a box in the sphere of work. As writer, as creative marketer, and student of business, I applaud this result of a fascinating, complex partnership of deep thinkers and eminently practical men. I received an advance copy of this book and these opinions are my own unbiased thoughts.
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Ross L.
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2024
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Ver easy and informative read.
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Mr. Max
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun read but makes a demigod out of entrepreneurs
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2022
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This book talks like rich people are god. It assumes that people like Elon musk are the ones to try to understand the factors responsible for their success.

It’s kind of Malcolm gladwelly
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James Ross
4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfied
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2023
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Michael Simonsen
3.0 out of 5 stars Never quite gets there
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2023
I like Cowen’s work a lot, so I’m happy to read his books. This one has some good thinking about finding talent and over coming our biases that often prevent us from finding the best people.

The authors do a good job of for example of making efforts to overcome inherent racial biases.

It was striking, however, in contrast to that, that several times in the book they referred to #metoo as a sort of hassle they now have to deal with rather than a shift in culture to embrace like they have embraced racial diversity. I found that to undermine a lot of what they were trying to accomplish.

I tend not to recommend this book. I send people to Top Grading instead.
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Tim Hicks
2.0 out of 5 stars Overreach by the authors
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2022
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The book's value is that it has lots of ideas for how to find and assess talent. Buried in the book are many gems but you have to look for them amongst all the other less valuable material. What Cowen and Gross do wrong is try to write "the" book on talent as though the topic lends itself to this approach. It does not. Talent, like leadership, is a topic filled with context and the sheer number of variables makes a definitive work impossible. Because of this, a great deal of the book was a waste of time while it clarified, contextualized and rambled without producing clear ideas.

My copy (hardback St. Martin's Press) is very cheaply made with poor paper quality and print that is hard to read. The eye strain was annoying.
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Leah S
1.0 out of 5 stars Endurance Challenge
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023
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Talent begins with a meet-cute between the authors and proceeds to list all of the wonderful, quirky things that make these authors so remarkable (oddly written in the third person). I am surprised that an editor didn't step in, as it's impossible to continue beyond the first chapter, which was painful to finish. I encourage all prospective readers to read the first chapter either at the library or on an Amazon preview before purchasing the book.
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Drosophila
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2023
Too bad this title wasn't written by Jack Welch or somebody with extensive experience hiring talent in the real world. Instead, we have two people -- an academic economist and a small-time tech guy, and VC who have collectively spent little time working in real companies that make stuff.
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Sergio Ricardo Y. Santos
2.0 out of 5 stars Uma coleção de obviedades...
Reviewed in Brazil on December 18, 2023
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Não vale nem o dinheiro investido na campra nem o tempo de ler tantas obviedades, abandone e siga para algo que valha seu tempo.
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Rodrigo Delgado
5.0 out of 5 stars gran libro para captar talento
Reviewed in Mexico on May 29, 2023
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Datos sobre tendencias actuales para revisar la forma de captar talento. La segunda parte no me quedo tan clara, no hay como Taron aquí específica de identificara creativos gente energética ganadores. Si lo recomendaría, es muy ameno. Algunos ejemplos se me hacen demasiado lejos del usuario común. Como por ejemplo el perfil de un inversor de capital de riesgo.
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Manau
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2022
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Bought the book as this topic is always on my mind and it was mentioned in the FT book reviews as well. Having read through the first 40 pages or so it seems like a casual conversation put into a book by the two authors. Not many sources or research is provided, almost no graphics shown. Lacks structure for me and was not convincing at all. Too much anecdotes, too few facts. Disappointing.
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antoine_h
2.0 out of 5 stars Deceptive
Reviewed in France on November 9, 2022
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Lots of generals ideas, with few actionnable ideas.
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Sivarman Swaminathan
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in India on October 3, 2022
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One of the best books, I have read on talent.It clearly gives an how to principle inch how to discover, nurture, support and grow talent. Talent spotting is an art and a science and this book clearly brings this out in an amazing manner.
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