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

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 Annotation 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 Strengthsshows 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. Introduction: The Last Asset -- Pt. I. Principles -- 1. Insist On Systems Thinking -- 2. Get The Right Facts -- 3. Focus On Value -- Pt. Ii. Tools -- 4. Defining Human Capital Strategy -- 5. Understanding Your Internal Labor Market -- 6. Building Your Strategy -- Pt. Iii. Applications -- 7. People Side Of Strategic Shifts -- 8. Making Acquisitions Work -- 9. Better Linking To Customers -- 10. Implications Of Business Risk -- Pt. Iv. Implications -- 11. Investor's Perspective -- 12. New Roles For Chief Executive Officers And Other Leaders -- 13. Managing Your Personal Human Capital -- 14. Into The Future: A Boardroom Conversation -- App. A. Research Roots Of The Six-factor Framework -- App. B. Intellectual Foundations Of The New Science. Haig R. Nalbantian ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [259]-266) And Index. 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 THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE officer (CEO) of a global manufacturing company we'll call ProductCo faced painful, widely known problems.