Talent Magnet: How to Attract and Keep the Best People (The High Performance Series) Hardcover – February 27, 2018

This book is a well-written storytelling approach to best practices when trying to attract top talent - regardless of the skillset that you need. I recently saw this title in a bookstore window on my way to catch a flight to London Heathrow. The title looked interesting and I'm speaking on "Building, growing, and leading" top talent this weekend (9 Jun) so I bought it on my mobile phone for the Kindle as I was boarding the plane. It's a short read that has some great insights that will help anyone looking to recruit and hire the A players, Top Talent, or whatever you call it in your business. The focus is on attracting and hiring top talent, but there are a couple of great points on growing talent and finding the top talent that is a diamond in the rough.

Really excited about the ultimate impact of this book. Practical, engaging, and accessible, I'm particularly struck by the focus on how to look beyond hiring "good" people to instead attracting the very "best" people. Also, the importance that potential top talent candidates place on personal growth and being led and surrounded by people and opportunities that enable them to grow is such an affirmation, but something that I feel there is not enough emphasis placed on. This is a balance for the obsession about how a potential hire can help the organization grow. I'll be thinking a great deal more about how we can grow TOGETHER in organizations so people are attracted, engaged, and working to grow results, grow the people around them, and grow themselves personally. Way to go Mark Miller! Another winner here!

I truly enjoyed reading this book and am already applying the key lessons. I have purchased all of Mark Miller's books over the past 10+ years and am truly a fan. On behalf of the leadership teams that I have led, we have purchased over 300 copies of The Secret and the follow-up books. I am getting more out of each book as they are written. Blake's quest for "Top Talent" is the same challenge we face each and every day in our business.As an engineer, I really liked the formula: Talent Magnet (TM) = B to the 3rd Power of A (Better Boss, Brighter Future, and Bigger Vision multiplied by the Awareness of the promise). There is a lot to think about in that equation, but it also symbolizes the challenge we all face in the competitive world we operate in.I highly recommend this book for anyone who is seeing operational and business excellence. At the end of the day, it is all about people and how well we lead them.

I am a big fan of all of Mark Miller’s books. This one has incredible insights that every team needs to implement but the story was too brief and truncated. Developing it more would provide richer insight and depth.

Mark Miller has done it again - presenting what might be considered complicated research findings in a practical, easy to read story. Once again, the insights provided in this text demonstrate that the complex issue of attracting and keeping talented people can be simplified to a set of actionable steps that any organization, regardless of size and resources can implement. This should be required reading for anyone wishing to lead a growing organization!

I'm impressed with this book and strongly recommend it to leaders who understand the importance of hiring and keeping the best talent. Miller emphasizes that companies attract and keep great talent when they offer great leadership (strong bosses), provide opportunities for employees to develop their own skills and value (brighter future), and the opportunity to do work that has a positive impact that includes but goes beyond making money. He's right, these are timeless insights into what motivates people, particularly people who know they can get any job but want the right job. I give this book a strong thumbs up and positive recommendation.

I don't know if I have mixed feelings about Mark Miller's "Talent Magnet: How to Attract and Keep the Best People (The High Performance)" or if I just wasn't into how the book is presented. It is presented like a fictional story. Blake, a CEO, is finding attracting top talent a challenge and the reader follows his and his team's quest on how to attract and keep talent.I appreciate the format but I sometimes felt like I was getting lost in what the point. Then there were times when the point was highlighted which then threw me out of the narrative so it was a mixed bag of reading experience. I think I'm just not used to this style for business books. I'm used to non-fictional presentation with anecdotes sprinkled in to highlight points.I think there are some good points in the book and for those open to this style or used to it, it probably won't be an issue.

Mark Miller’s latest book “Talent Magnet” touched a very important topic that a lot of organizations are struggling with to date, which has to do with what prevents top talent from staying motivated in the organization they serve in and what are the elements that are required for organiztions to offer them besides money.It has been clearly illustrated invMark’s fable that money as much as it is crucial to sustain top talent. It is not everything and other companies are needed to retain them.I truly recommend each and every leader to read this book and follow the roadmap provided

Lessons from this book are short enough to cover in a blog post. There's a lot of narrative that personally didn't help me.