Attracting Talented People

Tom Peters has a great post on his blog on attracting how to find talent. This is a part of the sweet post.

I contend that the bedrock of finding and keeping and co-creating with great folks is not about clever tools to induce prospective “thems” to “shop [live] with us,” but a 99% internal effort to create such an exciting, spirited, entrepreneurial, diverse, humane “professional home” that people will be lining up by the gazillions (physically or electronically) to try and get a chance to come and live in our house and become what they’d never imagined they could become!
I.e., it’s not an externally directed “war to snatch talent from the other guy” by “being more aggressive than the competition”—but an internally directed competition against ourselves (and our outrageously strong beliefs about people) in which we aim to create an unimaginably attractive workplace.

The cool thing is this that although this may not happen in every work environment, it can and does work in many various concepts. And when it does it creates passionate, top-notch, likely more loyal, talented people, who are passionate about what they do and they organization they work for. But, it has to be a passion of the leader(s) to great such an environment.

~ by Eric Whitman on September 16, 2007.