Dear Friend of CEO:

I am pleased to announce that the Center for Effective Organizations has published two important new books that are based on our research. You may order them from the following online booksellers:

• Amazon
• Barnes and Noble
• Borders
• Books-a-Million

Click on the book titles below to be taken to the Amazon site, where both books are offered for sale at below their list price.

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Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage by Edward E. Lawler III

Talent, the follow-up to the best-selling book Built to Change, which Chris Worley and I wrote, shows how organizations can combine the right organization design, management practices, and talent to gain a critical performance edge. Talent offers an example-rich blueprint that succinctly maps out the best approach to organizing and leading a talent-focused organization. The organizational features needed to create a talent-focused organization are identified and their operation explained. Special attention is paid to:

• Leadership
• Corporate boards
• Talent management
• Performance management
• Information and decision making

"Lawler has summarized his years of research and consulting in a hard-hitting and tremendously useful guide for the true people-centric organization."
- David A. Nadler, vice chairman, Marsh & McLennan Companies

"Human Capital is the Holy Grail for creating sustainable competitive advantage, and Talent provides a step-by-step guide, chock full of the latest examples, to the strategies involved in achieving competitive advantage through people."
- Peter Capelli, professor of management; director, the Center for Human Resources, the Wharton School

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Investing in People by Wayne F. Cascio and John W. Boudreau

Investing in People introduces a breakthrough approach to Human Resources (HR) measurement that systematically aligns HR investments with organizational goals and helps make HR the true strategic partner it needs to be. The book shows how to choose, implement, and use metrics to improve decision-making, optimize organizational effectiveness, and maximize the value of HR investments.

You'll master crucial foundational principles such as risk, return and economies of scale and use them to evaluate investments objectively in everything from work/life programs to training. Cascio and Boudreau also introduce powerful ways to integrate HR with enterprise strategy and budgeting, and for gaining commitment from business leaders outside the HR function.

"The HR profession will be well-served by the tools and analytic frameworks for the use of measurement provided by Wayne Cascio and John Boudreau.  The observations offered by the authors on how best to 'get started' in using measurements to inform and motivate strategic partners to think more clearly about the implications of decisions about talent will also serve the HR profession well....Wayne and John help to advance HR as a profession that is recognized as a decision science requiring special knowledge and expertise." 
-From the Foreword by Sue Meisinger, President and CEO, Society for Human Resource Management




I hope you will find these books to be of interest and use.

Sincerely,


Edward E. Lawler III
Director
Center for Effective Organizations