Navigating the Talent Shift
How to Build On-Demand Teams that Drive Innovation, Control Costs, and Get Results
Authors: Hufford, Lisa
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By 2020, 40 percent of the workforce won’t want to be your employee. That means managers and executives have to forget the old recruit-and-search for-months methods to acquire talent and revise their perception that “talent” is only full-time employees. The good news is that this talent allows you to achieve the biggest impact on your projects in the fastest time possible.
In Navigating the Talent Shift, author Lisa Hufford introduces you to SPEED: a fast, and flexible talent strategy that shows companies how to access the 65 million people that make up the on-demand, specialized talent pool. This strategy shows you how to:
• Stop spending months searching for talent• Have a team of on-demand talent at your fingertips• Exponentially expand your talent pool • Test ideas and change direction fast to stay competitive and drive innovation• Reduce severance and layoffs• Bring a fresh perspective with strategic doers on your team• Do more with less
Navigating the Talent Shift will show you and your team how to tap into an on-demand workforce while providing you with the talent you need to be nimble and successful. - About the authors
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Lisa Hufford is the founder and CEO of Simplicity Consulting, which has been named to the Inc. 5000 list for five years running as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Inc. also named Lisa one of the top 10 female entrepreneurs, and she has been chosen as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Woman.
Simplicity is a talent solutions company with expertise in sales and marketing delivering results for companies including Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile and more. Prior to founding Simplicity Consulting, Lisa managed strategic high-value partners for Microsoft and RR Donnelley, including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Gateway, and Apple. - Reviews
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- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Navigating the Shifts in the On-Demand Workplace
Pages 1-15
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The Changing Face of Talent
Pages 17-36
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The SPEED Solution
Pages 37-55
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Build Your On-Demand Team
Pages 57-93
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Overcoming Roadblocks and Perceptions
Pages 95-113
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Navigating the Talent Shift
- Book Subtitle
- How to Build On-Demand Teams that Drive Innovation, Control Costs, and Get Results
- Authors
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- Lisa Hufford
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-54802-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-54802-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-54803-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 148
- Topics
