Talent, Tyler Cowen
Talent, Tyler Cowen
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Talent
How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Author: Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2022


Synopsis

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the authors.

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About Tyler Cowen

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.

About Daniel Gross

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on October 19, 2022

I got into an Ivy League school this summer. I read this book as sort of therapy to justify not going. It (mostly) worked. So a bit of indulgence here. I went to a high school (two actually) that has since been shut down amidst lawsuits related to child abuse. I tried to go to college and dropped out......more

Goodreads review by Andy on May 19, 2022

To be honest this reads like it was generated via GPT-3 trained on Marginal Revolution posts.......more

Goodreads review by D on July 08, 2022

"Talent" accurately satirises the pomposity of today's experts. The anonymous author takes on the persona of "Tyler Cowen", a highly intelligent and praised modern intellectual, known for genuinely smart economics analysis, who finds acolytes hanging on his every word on any issue, regardless of Tyl......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian on June 25, 2022

Yet another book that is gaining a lot of publicity these days. I have to admit my initial impression was positive - I haven't made that many notes (while reading a book) for quite a long time. But the problem with "Talent: How to ..." is that it's primarily supposed to inspire, so frequently the aut......more

Goodreads review by Fin on May 27, 2022

The thesis of this book is that the world can and should do better to find talent, and failing to identify talent has large but mostly silent costs (analogous to restrictions on immigration, or some kinds of discrimination). I found that really compelling. I enjoyed the unusual interview question ide......more