Play Your Best Hand: How to Manage the Four Types of Knowledge Workers--and Stack the Odds for Maximum Success

Play Your Best Hand: How to Manage the Four Types of Knowledge Workers--and Stack the Odds for Maximum Success by Ralston, Faith. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781593376857.

The number of knowledge workers has doubled in the last decade. Unlike yesterdays workers their value is not measured in hours logged, but in how much quality and innovation they create for your organization. Talent is the new wildcard in todays competitive marketplace. If you want to tap your employees full potential you have to manage differently. Play Your Best Hand shows you how to align knowledge workers talents with strategic business goals. Using practical exercises and assessments, managers learn to apply strength-based leadership principles to leverage individual and team talents. Play Your Best Hand also covers: the four employee talent types key challenges of managing knowledge workers - and recommended solutions the five talent-based leadership principles and how to apply them and more! Play Your Best Hand is the innovative leadership approach you need to keep todays knowledge workers motivated and productive!