Talent Wants to Be Free
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Talent Wants to Be Free

Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

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Talent Wants to Be Free

Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

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A compelling argument for a new set of attitudes toward human capital to sharpen our competitive edge and to fuel the creative sparks in any environment

This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today’s innovation ecosystems.

In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many companies embrace a control mentality—relying more on patents, copyright, branding, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of their own talent and secrets than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins when talent is set free.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780300166415
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business History
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Control Is A Double-Edged Sword
  4. Part One: The Human Capital Priority
  5. 1. The Talent Wars
  6. 2 Innovation’s Edge
  7. Part Two: Choose Your Battles
  8. 3. Noncompete—Compete!
  9. 4. Competition And The Miracle Of Place
  10. 5. Top Secret—Not Secret!
  11. 6. Sharing And The Miracle Of Cognitive Freedoms
  12. 7. Mine—Yours (Or Ours)
  13. 8. Ownership And The Miracle Of Innovation Motivation
  14. Part Three: The Talent Commons
  15. 9. Talent Wars And The Entrepreneurial Spirit
  16. 10. Win–Win–Win
  17. Notes
  18. Index