To achieve sustained competitive advantage, you must create and deliver something that's valuable, rare, and hard to imitate-and you can't do that with a run-of-the-mill workforce. Your workforce needs to be strikingly different, obsessively focused on delivering on your unique value proposition. Compared with everyone else's workforce, your people need to be downright strange! This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce that's strange and extraordinary eugh to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. It's about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different...creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain...implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals...establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique...using those metrics to drive clarity throughout your entire organization, and steer it toward success. If you're tasked with executing strategy through people, and balanced scorecards and strategy maps just haven't been eugh, take your next and greatest leap forward: make the Change to Strange. * Why rmal workforces just won't cut it anymore Everyone says their people make the difference. Most everyone's wrong. * Create your strange workforce in four steps Imagine, pinpoint your gaps, prioritize, and act. * What your customers must tice for you to win Link your real performance drivers to specific workforce deliverables. * Rearchitect your workforce to break from the pack Organize to get strategic results from the right people. * Leverage the magic of measurement Implement metrics that work-and keep them working.
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Publisher
Pearson Education (Us)
ISBN-10
013231777x
ISBN-13
9780132317771
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103999966
Product Key Features
Author
Daniel M. Cable
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Management & Business: General
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Upper Saddle River
Author Biography
Dr. Daniel M. Cable is a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar and a Professor of Management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Cable's consulting and teaching focus on aligning a wide spectrum of human systems with company strategy; his consulting clients have ranged from Sony Ericsson to The Bureau of Naval Personnel. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other leading publications. Dr. Cable was honored with the McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell.