The Five Talents That Really Matter

…Give people a very clear language and a means of identifying the characteristics in themselves that might lend to more effective leadership and to help them think about where they spend their time if they're going to develop those.…

…I mean, just to add to what Barry is already saying, the idea with the five talents that really matter is that there are unchanging elements of who people are that drive very good performance in leadership roles. As Barry said, not everyone will have them or people will have them to different degrees. So what we wanted to do with this book is give people a…

…If you use a well-calibrated predictive assessment, you'll make far fewer selection errors and far more selection hits. So the third element of the book describes what companies are currently doing wrong and how to fix it. And the fourth element of the book is the most exciting, and that is we give people a chance to take the assessment. So the book covers…