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Play to your strengths: managing your internal labor markets for lasting competitive advantage
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New York : McGraw-Hill, 2004
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9780071422536
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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 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


Author Notes

Haig R. Nalbandian, Richard A. Guzzo, Dave Kieffer, and Jay Doherty are cofounders and principals of Mercer HR Consulting and are the originators of the groundbreaking theory, tools, and processes in this book. Their work has garnered major media attention in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and the Financial Times and on CNN and CNBC.