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Rethink Everything You Know about Managing Talent in Today’s Disruptive Landscape

A Vice Chairman at Korn Ferry (KF)―the world’s largest talent advisory and executive search firm―RJ Heckman has helped many of today’s most successful companies develop talent-management strategies that ensure corporate success through good times and bad. Now, he shares his breakthrough methods with you.

The Talent Manifesto reveals proven talent strategies and innovative recruiting and retainment methods gleaned from nearly three decades of consulting with the world's leading organizations. Heckman identifies the most common pitfalls in HR today and delivers an actionable program for avoiding them. He shows how to generate reliable data and use it to make the best decisions. He reveals all the game-changing HR strategies at your disposal and how to use them to drive superior business performance.

As organizations across industries experience faster cycles of disruptive change, one factor looms above all others as a portent of their future success: whether they can recruit, develop, and retain top talent better and faster than their competitors. With The Talent Manifesto, you have everything you need to redesign your HR strategies, reshape perception of talent management, and measurably contribute to your organization’s ability to compete―now and in the future.
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RJ Heckman, Ph.D., Vice Chairman at Korn Ferry (KF), has worked inthe talent management consulting and leadership development fields for 25years. He consults on a daily basis with many of Korn Ferry’s 7,000 clients,representing many of the world's top organizations. He has worked as aninternal HR leader for two Fortune 50 companies, as CEO of a global leadershipadvisory firm, and served as a consultant to Boards, CEOs, and CHROs of morethan 100 Global 1000 companies.

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"RJ Heckman's brilliant book, The Talent Manifesto, challenges conventional notions of talent management: It isn't having talent, but deploying the most talented people in the right roles that gives your company strategic advantage and then inspiring them to superior performance. Heckman shares his vast wisdom and experience in enabling organizations to develop their superior talent." --Bill George, Harvard Business School Professor, former Medtronic CEO
"RJ Heckman practices what he preaches. His talent solutions start with leadership needed to execute strategy, he brings data on people and teams to the conversation, and his thoughts are practical at implementation. If you are trying to align talent with execution to get better results this is your book."-- Dr. Marc Bitzer, Chief Executive Officer at Whirlpool Corporation
"RJ presents a simple and powerful approach for what organizations really need - a coherent and unified perspective to create real value for CEOs and CHROs. An essential "compass & navigation chart" kit for all business folks who mean 'business'!"--Satish Pradhan, former Group Head of HR of the Tata Group
"A must read for CEOs and CHROs eager to transform with intention their talent strategy in order to optimize their business performance, while navigating through a hyper competitive global landscape."--Chantal Veevaete, retired SVP of Human Resources, Phillips 66

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (February 12, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 126014254X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1260142549
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.1 inches
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RJ Heckman, Ph.D., Vice Chairman at Korn Ferry, has worked in the talent management consulting, and leadership development fields for 25 years. He consults with many of Korn Ferry’s 7,000 clients, representing a large number of the world’s top organizations. He has worked as an internal HR leader for two Fortune 50 companies, as CEO of a global leadership advisory firm, and served as a consultant to boards, CEOs, and CHROs of more than 100 Global 1000 companies.

A published author and sought-after speaker, Heckman is a frequent presenter at both professional and academic venues such as the Harvard Business School, INSEAD, New York University, the Human Resources Planning Society, HR Technology Conference, and the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology.

Heckman’s thought leadership has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, HR Executive Magazine, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, and Human Resource Management Review, among others.

Heckman earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and completed his graduate studies with a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Tulsa.

He has lived and worked in New York, Boston, and Tokyo, and currently resides in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.

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David Gerard Morgan Hill
5.0 out of 5 stars Rigorous, Tough-Minded Vision for Building Talent
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019
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Talent Manifesto is an information filled, concise and cogent argument for the use of data, logic and a business focus in designing and implementing human resources and talent management programs. I was fortunate enough to join PDI, a science-based organization consulting firm in 2011 when RJ Heckman was CEO. I was immediately impressed by the way that he merged business strategy and people strategy not only in the work we did with clients, but in our own company. A few years later he engineered the acquisition of PDI by the global consulting firm Korn Ferry. In this fine book, he tackles such topics as Learning as a New Strategic Lever, Choosing to Build vs Buy Talent and many others. He also describes the vital role of leader assessment for selection and promotion which I was heavily involved in while working at PDI and Korn Ferry. Just like any manifesto, this is tough-minded writing and you will likely find things here that you will cheer or challenge. But that is RJ’s intent, after all, to chart out a rather bold vision that should stimulate many engaging debates and discussions. I’m so glad that RJ wrote this book. It deserves a wide audience among company leaders, strategists, learning, Human Resources and talent staff and entrepreneurs.
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Dave Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book for Presidents and CEOs
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2019
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Our company is a fast-growing, $100M manufacturing company based in the Midwest. Over the last year, we have been working hard to transition our HR function from a traditional compliance-focus to becoming a true strategic partner for the business. This book is the best resource I have found on how to make this happen. The author combines numerous real-world examples with suggested step-by-step actions for how CEOs and HR leaders can work together to accomplish this goal. If your organization is seeking to elevate the importance and impact of managing talent in your company, I would highly recommend reading this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good points
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019
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There is a lot that I enjoyed while reading "The Talent Manifesto: How Disrupting People Strategies Maximizes Business Results" by RJ Heckman. I like the term 'talent management' over 'human resource" and although the latter isn't going away any time soon, the former is being used more. I like how the author incorporates "talent' from the title and through the book. I thought he makes a good points although I'm not sure the main thesis is fully supported. To be honest, I kind of lost track of the 'disrupting people strategies'. That may be because my workplace is utilizes many of the ideas that are presented. That may also be why I appreciate the book in the overall points presented in that there's a chunk of it that is familiar and I know that it is beneficial to the employees. There are a few places that I thought it overreached a bit but overall, it was a good solid read.
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EdMor
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2019
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Gone are the days of antiquated HR departments and their staid roles in managing employees! Heckman's book is an eye-opening, fact-filled and well-written guide to a new age of data-driven talent management, demonstrating its direct and positive effects on improved performance at all corporate levels.
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Alec Gamble
5.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020
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Nicholas Cage
1.0 out of 5 stars Dumb
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2023
Low quality book
No new information
Regurgitated nonsense
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Jane Rosenthal
5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful book
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020
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I am rather new to managing people (the last 3-4 years) and feel like I am just now making the shift from learning about the rules and the "lay of the land" at my organization and I am now feeling ready to start utilizing strategies to help others in my organization grow and to start work toward a new talent-development focused culture at my institution. I work in higher education and things are very slow to change, but I think this shift is necessary.
This book offers a plethora of ideas to help improve organizations and work together to meet that organization grow. I think it will also help to move out of an almost adversarial relationship with the HR department into one of collaboration and growth. This book touches on the important areas of learning and development, and performance management, which are the areas I expected to focus on in my role, but there are also many ideas for employee engagement, rewards, and to me the most important area of succession planning/continuity. This is a well-written book with great examples to illustrate points and strategies that seem very practical and doable. This book would be great for HR personnel and managers.
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Lehigh History Student
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid look at the future of HR.
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2019
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The Talent Manifesto lays out the framework for how a modern Human Resources (HR) Office should operate. From utilizing analytics to measure performance (and doing away with yearly reviews) to utilization of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) that offer greater transparency for better results shortening time to hire and cost to hire are going to be norms in the new world. The user experience from both the employee, applicant and front line manager are the wave of the future as opposed to back end HR. New workflow tools that allow automation of payroll and HR assistant tasks are giving way to more higher thinking jobs and less data entry. The book focuses a lot on the highest levels of personnel management form boards down to CEO’s down to those in charge of HR but does offer some food for thought to mid level managers as well. As someone who is on the periphery of this field I found it enlightening and a great template for how an HR office should run. It is well written with good summaries and case studies throughout.
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