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About this book
In this new collection of articles on talent acquisition and retention, Adrian Furnham, author of The Elephant in the Boardroom, offers an engaging and witty look into the world of the talented manager. Based on solid research this book offers a substantial introduction to the importance of talent in the workplace.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- A walk in the woods
- Aberrant self-promotion at work
- All the questions and all the answers
- Appraisal systems
- Beware of creatives
- Blamestorming
- Career success
- The catch-phrase technique
- Change
- Charlatan detection
- Child support
- The content of job advertisements
- Could do better
- The dangers of forecasting
- Different perspectives
- Does coaching work?
- The drive for money
- The emotional contract at work
- Esthetics at work
- Evidence at work
- Expansion
- Faking it
- Face-ism and shape-ism at work
- Food at work
- Gender and job satisfaction
- Gossip is good for you
- Hating HR
- How management style leads directly to profit and loss
- The hyper-moral obsessive
- Improving references
- Incentive schemes
- Inspirational teachers
- Interview techniques
- The leader profit chain
- The legacy problem
- Lie detectors
- Loafers, suckers and free-riders
- Market research
- Mentoring at work
- Money as a motivator
- The narcissistic manager
- Nutters at work
- The obsolescent CEO
- Peanuts and monkeys
- Power and status in organizations
- Processes, profit and people
- Protecting vulnerable customers
- Quant Jocks and qual Jills
- Recognition programs that don't work
- Religion at work
- Resilience and hardiness
- Resistance to change
- The scientific understanding of the public
- Seven lessons for appraisal
- Showing off the CEO
- Smarts
- Spirituality at work
- Striving for power
- Surveillance at work
- Taking care and taking charge
- Taking offense
- To do a Ph.D.
- What is conscientiousness?
- Whistle-blowing at work
- Wit at work
- The work ethic
- Writing as therapy
- Writing your own obituary