The Rare Find, George Anders
The Rare Find, George Anders
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The Rare Find
Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else

Author: George Anders

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/18/2011


Synopsis

A journalistic quest to discover the secrets of the best talent hunters, revealing how they spot superstars before anybody else.  Why are some people so much better than everyone else at spotting future stars? How do the best talent pickers in any field recognize future greatness--the subtle and reliable tells that indicate the potential for top performance?George Anders set out to find the best talent hunters in the worlds of business, sports, pop music, movies, venture capital, academia, medical research, and the military. As radically different as these fields may seem, all share an intense belief in the importance of finding high achievers. Anders reveals some surprising insights as he explores, for example:-How Hollywood casting agents size up candidates
-How venture capitalists pick winners like Apple and Google
-How the army's special forces culls top recruitsAnders pairs his frontline observations with the rapidly expanding research findings of psychiatrists, economists, recruiters, and business strategists. He offers powerful tools that can help anyone tasked with tracking down tomorrow's talent. The Rare Find shows how anyone hone the ability to recognize future greatness.

About The Author

George Anders, author of Merchants of Debt and Health Against Wealth, is currently a news editor with The Wall Street Journal and formerly a senior editor at Fast Company. He was part of a team of Wall Street Journal reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.Robert Fass is the Audie Award–winning narrator of more than 125 unabridged audiobooks. An eight-time Audie nominee, he has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. To learn more, visit robertfass.com and follow @RobertFass1 on Twitter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy Nielsen on January 15, 2018

For anyone thinking of hiring a CEO, a football player, a basketball player or a Harvard Law Business School Administrator, this book is a great find. For the rest of us who are likely only going to be hiring nurses, clerical workers, marketers, accountants etc for our businesses, it is doubtful tha......more

Goodreads review by Glenda on March 01, 2012

Highly recommend Anders examination of identifying and selecting out those among us who are capable of exceptional success: thinking in new paradigms, defining new pathways, and how to identify those characteristics for our companies and our projects. The author examines the highly unique, breakthro......more

Goodreads review by Shane on August 31, 2012

This easy-to-read book discusses modern thinking in talent recruiting. Despite the title, it's more than just finding the very top talent; it concerns how to identify people that will survive and excel when most would quit. The book focuses on finding talent that conventional methods would disqualif......more

Goodreads review by Yinnie on October 16, 2012

Fascinating book about finding talent in the long tail of probability and the importance of character and grit/persistence. Examples from the special forces to TFA to Taylor Swift and Pope John Paul II. Highly recommend this to anyone interested in talent management and building a sustainable organi......more

Goodreads review by Doug on May 08, 2012

A very interesting approach to finding game-changing talent. It actually provides an intellectual framework where the quirks of big law firms actually makes sense.......more


Quotes

“George Anders is himself a rare find. A superb writer, he brings piercing intellect and persistent curiosity to examine the single most important leadership skill: finding and picking the right people. By turning his own talent upon this vital and elusive question, Anders has done a great service.”—Jim Collins, author of How the Mighty Fall and Good to Great “How do you find brilliant performers? The first step is to read this remarkable, groundbreaking, profoundly useful book—which is not so much a book as a detailed map of the newly revealed landscape of modern talent hunting. Quite simply, the best book on the subject I’ve ever read.”—Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code “George Anders combines deep reporting, vivid storytelling, and keen analysis to help unravel the mysteries of talent. Whether you’re running a large organization or managing a small team, The Rare Find is that rare book—a must-read.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “George Anders finds the deep truth about choosing people right. You’ll never make these supremely important decisions the same way again.”—Geoff Colvin, author of Talent Is Overrated “Resilience, curiosity, and self-reliance are strengths that don’t show up in HR hiring manuals. In The Rare Find, George Anders shows that they lead to fresh ways to hunt for talent. More power to him for daring to advocate that which is not obvious.”—Andrew S. Grove, former chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation and author of Only the Paranoid Survive “Well researched, useful, and entertaining . . . The book not only shows how to find and hire top talent, it also provides valuable advice for anyone looking to enhance his or her own performance.”—Steven N. Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business