Play to Your Strengths: Managing Your Company's Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage: Managing Your Company's Internal Labor Marke

By Ricardo Olea Zapata, Olimpio Rodríguez Santos, Roberto Galeana Ríos

The breakthrough approach for aligning people with strategy for higher profits

Organizations that select, develop, deploy, manage, and motivate their people to produce outstanding business results have an extraordinary competitive advantage that others can't copy. Backed by Mercer's nine-year, $10 million study of leading companies around the world, Play to Your Strengths shows how to leverage a company's human capital strategy into business results that are measurable and profitable and that will create exceptional, enduring competitive advantages.

This bottom-line-boosting guide gives managers, senior executives, and consultants the theory, tools, and processes they need to:

Measure the effects of people on business results Determine the impact of strategies before making them Focus on the organization's most effective people strategies Deliver more money to the bottom line in a sustainable manner Create enduring, copy-proof competitive advantages

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071422536
• ISBN13: 9780071422536
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

~How~ people contribute to performance ... MBA must-read!

The term "human capital management" has stepped into the long line of buzzwords that attempt to leverage people into increased organizational performance. Play to Your Strengths takes a step beyond the rhetoric to actually explore "how" to accomplish this. From their 3 critical questions -- led by "what are we spending on human capital (cost) and what is it buying us(value)?" -- to their six-factor framework defining human...

Science, art, or a new lable for an old management tool?

Whenever guru-accented statements like "leveraging human capital to produce results" I feel a quiver, not of excitement, but of caution. However, management trainees and schools like label-accented seminars and books, so this title, Play to Your Strengths, isn't anything that will offend anyone. People are generally any company's core area asset. Despite the company's product, service, busines strategy, market share and management...