How To Find Great Talent - by Anthony Pompliano

Everyone is in the talent business. Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or an employee of a large corporation, we are all trying to find great people to work with. This activity is fairly opaque, so most people rely on their intuition. If you ask them “are you good at finding great talent?,” they will quickly say yes. But is that really true? How do you know you are good? What does it take to find the best talent in the world? These questions led me to read a new book over the weekend from Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross called Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. As we all know, non-fiction business books can be dry and hard to read, but this one was very well done. It was concise, full of examples, and clearly communicated a number of powerful ideas. I took pages of notes from the book, but here are some of the main ideas that may help you in your day-to-day job: First, talent search is key to everything we do. “Talent search is one of the

Everyone is in the talent business. Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or an employee of a large corporation, we are all trying to find great people to work with. This activity is fairly opaque, so most people rely on their intuition. If you ask them “are you good at finding great talent?,” they will quickly say yes. But is that really true? How do you know you are good? What does it take to find the best talent in the world? These questions led me to read a new book over the weekend from Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross called Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Aro