How can you ensure your company lands the top talent-and capitalizes on it? Just ask a veteran CEO. Lessons from a CEO's Journal: Leading Talent and Innovation looks at the management of talent from the vantage of a fictional retired entrepreneur/CEO. It offers leaders an unprecedented, entertaining guide to getting the best workforce and getting the best out of them.
Presented over the course of an imagined seven-day Caribbean cruise, a recently retired CEO shares lessons learned about talent management over his career. By the end of the cruise, readers have gleaned invaluable insight on all aspects of attracting and shepherding exceptional human resources. You'll learn how to attract and select talent, integrate and align them, engage and develop them, and deploy and plan their succession. You'll also learn the implications of talent management for leading innovation.
Practical and accessible, Lessons from a CEO's Journal is a required reading for anyone who seeks to leverage talent to enhance the success of a business. It's a must for human resources professional and those in organizational development, as well as any business leader, manager, or student who seeks to identify and nurture the right person for any job.
About the Author: Kim Ruyle is president of Inventive Talent Consulting, LLC, where he applies more than thirty years of experience in human resources, organizational development, and general management. His Miami-based firm provides strategic talent management and organizational development consulting for leading global enterprises. A current associate in Korn Ferry's Global Associate Network, he spent nearly six years with Korn Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting. There, he served as vice president of research and development, leading the development of assessments, human resources tools, and thought leadership. In addition, the author has presented at numerous national and international conferences, has published dozens of articles and book chapters, has served on expert panels and editorial boards, and has coauthored four other books on talent management and leadership development. He currently holds three master's degrees and a PhD.
For more information, visit Ruyle's website at www.inventivetalent.com, follow him on Twitter at @inventivetalent, or e-mail him at kim.ruyle@inventivetalent.com.
