"Traditionally, organizations have hired employees based on what they can do and have done in the past (competency-based recruiting), rather than what they are naturally good at and love doing, or Strengths-Based Recruitment (SBR). Companies, such as Starbucks and Gap, have adopted SBR and have...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Clutching at straws: a picture of the Stone Age company -- 2. New frontiers: why they need to change -- 3. The urge to retreat -what stops companies changing? -- 4. Not up to the job-why bosses don't deserve to be -- 5....