Despite considerable investment in resources and tools, many managers and their companies struggle to get the level of talent they truly require. Make Talent Your Business gets to the heart of the matter: Managers themselves are in the best position to help people learn from experience (the uncontested major source of development). The books shows managers how to do this by using the five practices that work for leaders who are exceptional at building talent.Based upon research with exceptional leaders from companies such as Corning, Intel, Merck, Kraft, Siemens, Marriott, Microsoft, Wells Fargo and Xerox this approach goes well beyond the usual managerial coaching and performance management. This breakthrough approach of five practices helps managers develop significant capabilities in their employees well beyond the scope of their current roles. It integrates development into day-to-day work, rather than making it a separate event. Managers who develop people this way get better results, retain talent, enhance their own reputations and certainly do not want to return to their former ways of managing.

尽管在资源和工具方面投入了大量资金，但许多管理者和他们的公司仍难以获得他们真正需要的人才。让人才成为企业的核心：管理者自己处于帮助人们从经验中学习的最佳位置（这是无可争议的主要发展来源）。这本书向管理者展示了如何通过使用五种方法来实现这一目标，这五种方法适用于在培养人才方面表现出色的领导者。基于对康宁、英特尔、默克、卡夫、西门子、万豪、微软等公司杰出领导者的研究，富国银行（Wells Fargo）和施乐公司（Xerox）这种方法远远超出了通常的管理指导和绩效管理。这一突破性的五种实践方法有助于管理者在其员工中培养出远远超出其当前角色范围的重要能力。它将开发集成到日常工作中，而不是将其作为单独的事件。以这种方式培养人才的管理者会获得更好的结果，留住人才，提高自己的声誉，当然也不想回到以前的管理方式。