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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.

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“Talent is what happens when two brilliant and profoundly iconoclastic minds apply their imagination to one of the hardest of all business problems: the search for good people. I loved it.”
―Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia and The Tipping Point

"Talent is everything―whether in investing and building startups, or in other creative endeavors. Between product, market, and people, I've always bet on the last one as the biggest predictor of success. But while talent may be everywhere, it's unevenly distributed, and hard to 'find.' So how do we better discover, filter, and match the best talent with the best opportunities? This book shares how, based on both scientific research and the authors' own experiences. The future depends on this know-how."
―Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

"The most important job of any leader is to find individuals with a 'creative spark,' and the potential to discover, invent and build the future. If you want to learn the art and science of spotting and empowering exceptional people, Talent is brimming with fresh insights and actionable advice."
―Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google

"Two of the premier talent spotters working today, Cowen and Gross have written the definitive history of identifying talent. Anyone who is interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, or the roots of America's start-up economy must read this book."
―Christina Cacioppo, CEO and co-founder of Vanta

"I do not know of any skills more worth developing than the ability to find exceptional undeveloped talent. I have spent many years trying to get good at that, and I was still astonished by how much I learned reading this book."
―Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

"Talent is a provocative tour of the considerations and assumptions that go into hiring."
―Time

"[A] thoughtful guide … Managers looking to shake up the interview process will find this worth a look."
―Publishers Weekly

"A useful and entertaining map for companies looking toward a creative future."
―Kirkus

"[A] compelling and thought-provoking guide to finding great people."
―Forbes

"Talent presents new insights into the process of hiring. … In an era of information overload, Cowen and Gross have provided a useful book to remind us that if talent is rare, as it surely is, the ability to spot it may be equally exceptional."
―City Journal

About the Author

Tyler Cowen (Ph.D.) holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (2007), Create Your Own Economy (2009), the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation (2011), An Economist Get Lunch (2012), Average is Over (2013), and a number of academic books. He writes the most read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. He has written regularly for The New York Times and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodicals.

DANIEL GROSS is an entrepreneur and investor. At 18, he was accepted into Y-Combinator, the youngest founder ever at the time. He founded Cue, an AI-powered search engine, which was acquired by Apple in 2013. In 2018, Daniel founded Pioneer, a search engine for the millions of “Lost Einstein’s” ― extraordinarily creative people around the world who have the talent, but lack opportunity.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (May 17, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250275814
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250275813
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 1.3 x 8.55 inches

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Tyler Cowen (/ˈkaʊ.ən/; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, academic, and writer. He occupies the Holbert L. Harris Chair of economics, as a professor at George Mason University, and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen and Tabarrok have also ventured into online education by starting Marginal Revolution University. He currently writes a regular column for Bloomberg View. He also has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time, Wired, Newsweek, and the Wilson Quarterly. Cowen also serves as faculty director of George Mason's Mercatus Center, a university research center that focuses on the market economy. In February 2011, Cowen received a nomination as one of the most influential economists in the last decade in a survey by The Economist. He was ranked #72 among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine "for finding markets in everything."

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Talent Management

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2022

This book is essential reading for anyone in management, human capital, or just anyone interested in learning more about organizational psychology.

Many thanks to the authors, publisher, and NetGalley for sharing this book with me. All thoughts are my own.

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Fun read but makes a demigod out of entrepreneurs

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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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Overreach by the authors

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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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Louise Foerster

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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Michael

This book is a waste of time and money.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2023

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I found very little of use or note in the book, besides for the fact that Tyler has a high opinion of himself and puts a lot of faith in clever interview questions.

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Michael Simonsen

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.

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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ANNIEM

Great book for those seeking a new job or searching for talent!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2022

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book but found some very useful insights and suggestions on how to assess talent for hiring. Although its subtitle is "How to Identify Energizers, Creatives and Winners Around the World" there are sample interview questions and techniques that could work for roles beyond the C-suite. I particularly appreciated the chapters on being open to hiring people with disabilities and understanding how our personal biases get in the way when we are interviewing and selecting people with disabilities, women and people of color. These chapters were worth their weight in gold since so little is written about awareness of our own preconceived notions. I also appreciated their deep analysis of using personality profiles (five factor analysis and others) and the strengths and barriers to using this information in interviewing and selection. This is a good book for those who are interviewing for a job themselves or for leaders searching for great talent for their organizations.

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Rodrigo Delgado

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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Ofernandez

We all are talented people

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on February 9, 2023

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Again, something that it’s a must to learn and achieve since the beginning of the academic and knowledge road at every human being , explain the why’s of a developed society and confront us with past to that question about “And what if I would be at ….”

Great work and it’s a fundamental book to be read by not just one who’s seeking for a job or an Scout profile but for just everybody.

Sivarman Swaminathan

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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Deceptive

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on November 9, 2022

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Lots of generals ideas, with few actionnable ideas.

Manau

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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