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Book Reviews see all articles in this section BookNotes BookNotes is your monthly guide to good, informative reading. Each month BookNotes will feature the Editor's choice of titles. This month our Editor has selected these books on finding, hiring and managing talent. Winning the Talent Wars Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. Author: Bruce Tulgan You are scrambling to recruit great people. So is everyone else. No sooner do you bring people in and train them up to speed than you have to start worrying how long they will stay. Every day it seems people are ready to cash out for a better deal and it's the best people who are the most likely to leave . . . because they can. Welcome to the talent wars. Management expert Bruce Tulgan offers direction in a world familiar by now to every working person. Profound changes throughout the economy are affecting every aspect of business and dramatically altering the opportunities that lie ahead. At the root of these changes is a transformation of the employer-employee relationship. Long-term, pay-your-dues employment is dead. More and more people are acting like free agents, leveraging their skills for all they are worth, and moving on instead of waiting to move up. The War for Talent Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Author: Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones and Beth Axelrod In 1998, a landmark McKinsey Quarterly article exposed the "war for talent" as a critical business challenge and a fundamental driver of corporate performance. Now, just when you thought it was over, the authors present compelling evidence that the war for talent will persist over the next two decades despite the twists and turns of the economy. In this definitive guide, the authors present a strategic view of what managers must do to win the war for talent. Using an extensive body of research, they map out five bold imperatives for attracting, developing, and retaining the very best people. Most importantly, they show that great talent management has more to do with a pervasive "talent mindset" than it does with better HR processes. This book will help every manager build a stronger talent pool and turn high-caliber talent management into a strategic competitive advantage. The Talent Edge: A Behavioral Approach to Hiring, Developing, and Keeping Top Performers Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Author: David S. Cohen Every hiring manager knows that the traditional hiring and interviewing process is a poor tool for predicting organizational fit and future on-the-job success. Behavioral interviewing can improve your chances of picking the right candidate two to five times over traditional processes. It focuses on how the candidate works rather than on skills, qualifications, and impressions. The Talent Edge shows how you can develop a concrete understanding of what your own top performers do differently than the majority of their peers, and how to translate that knowledge into a better hiring system. While using case studies from organizations that have successfully transformed their hiring practices, the book articulates the business case for a Behavioral Interviewing system, and provides a roadmap for implementing it. How to Compete in the War for Talent Publisher: DC Press Author: Carol A. Hacker Are you tired of fighting for good people? Is your team’s performance a casualty of high turnover? Is it possible you’re not experiencing a shortage of personnel but a shortage of skills? If you’re open to new ways of hiring talent for your organization this book is for you. It’s loaded with step-by-step expert advice. It’s written in an easy-to-read format. It presents valuable insights into screening, interviewing and hiring right the first time. To buy these books, click on the book covers above or visit our comprehensive online bookstore at www.galtbooks.com www.galtbooks.com has been created with a mission to assist not-for-profit organizations within your community. Proceeds from every sale are donated to the organization of your choice. Click here to learn more. You may wish to submit a book review of yours for inclusion in The Galt Global Review. Please send your review to editor@galtglobalreview.com for consideration. We look forward to receiving your feedback and suggestions. © Copyright 2003. Galt Western Personnel Ltd. Unless otherwise specified, you may reprint this article, quote from it, use it in research or projects, duplicate it or distribute it. Credit of authorship and source MUST be given to galtglobalreview.com. Ownership of Copyright remains with Galt Western Personnel Ltd. Return to Top      Business News / Business Roundup - Australia / Canada / Europe / United States / Careers / Classified / Information Technology / New Technology / Education News / World Facts / Book Reviews / Archives/Research