Talent Magnet: How to Attract and Keep the Best People

By: Mark Miller

Narrated by: Joe Bronzi

There is a long-standing truth in the world of organizations: Talent wins! But how do you attract the best people? What do they really want? Based on his rigorous and extensive research, Mark Miller learned that top performers are looking for very different things than solid contributors.

In Talent Magnet, Miller uses a clever and entertaining business fable to share these findings. He tells the parallel stories of Blake Brown, a CEO struggling with winning the war for talent, and Blake's 16-year-old son, Clint, who is trying to get his first job so he can raise money to buy a well for a village in Africa.

Blake reaches out to leaders in other industries and works with his team to solve the puzzle of making his organization a destination for exceptional performers. But he also learns from his son. Listening to Clint and his friends compare notes on the companies they've worked for that summer, ranging from the awful to the inspirational, Blake realizes they want the same three things out of a job as any top performer in a Fortune 500 company.

Miller identifies these three critical aspects of a true talent magnet and explores the deeper meaning of each. He pulls back the curtain on what leaders can do to find and retain the very best people - a strategic need every leader faces.

©2018 Mark Miller (P)2018 Mark Miller

Quick book with good content.

Story format tends to be easy to illustrate points but I found this to get old since the narrator was performing all the voices w/o much distinction.

Good info. Reading is a little irritating

This book really gives good information about hiring and retaining talent. The changing of voices during narration is a little bothersome but not enough to stop listening

Reading and doing

Love this book, but more than the reading part doing the things it suggests is gonna get me super excited :-)

Great book - poor narration

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator needs to seek another line of work! His corny accents and voice characterization actually detracts from the story and the message. One has to consciously get past his lousy effort to get the value of the book.

Great use of story

The author uses two parallel stories to drive home suggestions on what top talent is seeking.