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.
