Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Talent Matters -- Competitive Realities -- The HC-Centric Organization -- Need for HC-Centric Organizations -- Chapter 2: Making the Right Management Choice -- Structure-Centric Organizing -- HC-Centric Management -- Making the Choice -- After the Choice -- Chapter 3: Designing Organizations -- The Star Model -- Strategy -- Competencies and Capabilities -- Structure -- Processes -- Rewards -- People -- Identity -- Design Differences -- Chapter 4: Managing Talent -- Management Priorities -- The Employer Brand -- Employment Contracts -- Individualized Deals -- Critical Skills -- Picking the Right People -- Development Opportunities -- Retaining the Right Talent -- What Is Needed -- Chapter 5: Managing Performance -- Defining Performance -- Developing Employee Skills and Knowledge -- Managing Motivation -- Performance Management System Design -- Getting Pay for Performance Right -- What Is Needed -- Chapter 6: Information and Decision Making -- What Should a Human Capital Information System Look Like? -- Knowledge Development -- Information and Knowledge Meet Decision Making -- What Is Needed -- Chapter 7: Reinventing HR -- The Current State of HR -- What HR Should Do -- Staffing HR -- Organizational Design and Human Resources -- What Is Needed -- Chapter 8: Governing Corporations -- What a Board Needs -- Executive Compensation Is Critical -- Boards for Different Types of HC-Centric Organizations -- What Boards Should Do -- Chapter 9: Leading -- Leaders, Managers, or Both? -- What Managers Need to Do -- Challenges Facing Executives -- Reward Differences -- Imperial CEOs -- Creating Shared Leadership -- How Global-Competitor and High-Involvement Leaders Should Differ -- What All Managers Should Do -- Chapter 10: Managing Change -- Why Not?.

Moving Toward an HC-Centric Organization -- Strategy and Flexibility in HC-Centric Organizations -- The Future Belongs to the HC-Centric Organization -- Epilogue -- The Societal Perspective -- Pace of Change -- The High-Involvement Approach-A Tougher Sell? -- Importance of Size -- Future of Management -- Notes -- References -- The Author -- Index.