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Author Lobel, Orly, author.

Title Talent wants to be free : why we should learn to love leaks, raids, and free riding / Orly Lobel
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations
Contents The talent wars -- Innovation's edge -- Noncompete -- compete! -- Competition and the miracle of place -- Top secret -- not secret! -- Sharing and the miracle of cognitive freedoms -- Mine yours (or ours) -- Ownership and the miracle of innovation motivation -- Talent wars and the entrepreneurial spirit -- Win, win, win
Summary This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today's innovation ecosystems. In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many companies embrace a control mentality--relying more on patents, copyright, branding, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of their own talent and secrets than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins when talent is set free
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Free enterprise.
Entrepreneurship.
Technological innovations.
Ability.
Entrepreneurship
Aptitude
entrepreneurs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
Ability
Entrepreneurship
Free enterprise
Technological innovations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300166415
0300166419
1299841287
9781299841284