STAR SEARCH: ATTRACTING TOP PERFORMERS

“No organization can do better than the people it has.”

—Peter Drucker, management guru and author (1909–2005)

Filling your ranks with good people has never been more important. That’s because your people represent your company to the public; and they’re the ones who will create your success.

If you can get the right people onto your team, and if you then give them the freedom to think and be creative, they can work magic. Yet good people are in short supply. Although universities and business schools around the world are churning out tens of thousands of MBAs every year, the imminent retirement of a whole generation—the 76 million baby boomers—means a wave of positions will be vacant. The competition ...

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