Game Changer

How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy

By: Michael Solomon, Rishon Blumberg, Daniel Weizmann - contributor

Narrated by: Rishon Blumberg

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Highly skilled 10x talent brings at least 10 times the value to your organization. By understanding how to attract, manage, and retain these sought-after individuals, your business will become more agile, innovative, and experience transformational growth.

10xers can tackle a company’s toughest problems, improve their strongest assets, and blaze a path to success. With the rapid digitization of every conceivable product and service, the environment has transformed so fast that every organization must be equipped with these phenomenally gifted employees to keep up.

Game Changer provides proven strategies on how your company can create the right environment for top talent and breakthrough success by upending traditional business practices.

It also reveals how individuals can evolve from good to great to 10x, and enjoy the many perks and rewards this status brings.

In Game Changer, you’ll learn:

• How highly skilled talent is transforming companies of all sizes and industries through real world stories and first-hand testimonies from top executives and entrepreneurs.
• Ways managers can become coaches that empower their team to accomplish amazing results.
• The unconventional business environment 10xers need for massive productivity, including deep flow states, greater autonomy and ownership, and work time flexibility.
• How to see yourself as both talent and management and become comfortable switching these hats.

Game Changer will show you how to make an impact at work, become a highly skilled and phenomenally gifted employee, and experience the rewards and satisfaction of being 10x.

©2020 Michael Solomon, Rishon Blumberg, Daniel Weizmann (P)2020 HarperCollins Leadership

Critic reviews

"With a unique perspective formed by representing artists like me, and subsequently adding tech talent to the mix, Blumberg and Solomon make a convincing argument in Game Changer for what it's going to take for companies and individuals to maintain a successful business model in an increasingly automated future." —Vanessa Carlton, Grammy Nominated Musician, Actor, and Social Activist 

"You can't afford to ignore Game Changer. 10x talent demands a different way to work and no one better understands this than Solomon and Blumberg. It's more than a work from home policy. It's a fundamental transformation in how we look at talent. Rest assured, by tapping into the tactics in this book, you can create and scale unparalleled business value." —Matthew Mottola, CEO of Venture L, Author of The Human Cloud, Built the Microsoft 365 Freelance Toolkit 

"I highly recommend it! Game Changer succinctly and powerfully lays out the new talent paradigm being created by 10x talent across all industries. The author's unique experience representing top talent in the tech industry lays the groundwork for how a new breed of talent can be utilized for transformational results in any organization." —Patrick R. Leddin, PhD, Associate Professor of Managerial Studies, Vanderbilt University

Good learning material for those on traditional corporations

The points made in this book are most advantageous and eye—opening to those coming from traditional corporations. But, they are generally known even to those between Silicon Valley and traditional corporate cultures.