Who Is the New How

Recruit, create, and retain the best teams In Who Is the New How: Strategies to Find, Recruit, and Create the Best Teams, a team of accomplished talent experts delivers a hands-on roadmap to filling your most mission-critical roles with the best people. In the book, you’ll explore strategies that guide the world’s most innovative companies and high-performing organizations as they scour the globe to build impactful, productive teams. You’ll learn how to reimagine your talent acquisition strategy, from who you’re looking for to how you should recruit them. You’ll also discover how and why to say goodbye to familiar phrases like, “just get a butt in the seat,” and counter-productive metrics like “time-to-fill.” The authors also explain: Why identifying candidates aligned with your company’s mission and culture is so critical to long-term talent success How using the right combination of technology and human expertise in the recruitment process can be the key to winning top talent What building teams filled with the right people can do for your team’s morale and ultimately make companies successful A revolutionary new approach to one of the most critical issues facing organizations today, Who Is the New How is the talent playbook that business and HR leaders have been waiting for.

Foreword vii Introduction xi Strategy I Rethink Who You’re Looking For 1 Chapter 1 A Matter of Intention 3 Chapter 2 Diverse Intangibles 23 Strategy II Rethink How You’re Going to Do It 45 Chapter 3 State of the Union 47 Chapter 4 On the Shoulders of Giants 69 Chapter 5 The Future of Work 81 Strategy III Rethink What It Could Mean 99 Chapter 6 The Culture Crutch 101 Chapter 7 A Human-Centric Workforce 121 Acknowledgments 141 Notes 145 Index 173