Books about hiring and keeping talent

The Talent War

Michael Sarraille

Foreword written by New York Times bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink. A must-read for any business leader looking to build elite teams and win on talent. Talent is the foundation of every success story from Silicon Valley to Wall Street…

Recruit Rockstars

Jeff Hyman

"Would you trust your company's most important decision to a coin toss? Well, that's what most hiring managers do every day. 50% of new hires are gone within 18 months. What if you could improve those odds dramatically... enough to fill every seat with a…

The Smartest Person in the Room

Christian Espinosa

Cyberattack, an ominous word that strikes fear in the hearts of nearly everyone, especially business owners, CEOs, and executives. With cyberattacks resulting in often devastating results, it’s no wonder executives hire the best and brightest of the IT world…

The Second in Command

Cameron Herold · 2023

As founder and CEO, you know you need to hire a COO. You need a COO who can help you build the company you don’t know how to build on your own. The Second in Command is your go-to guidebook when you’re ready to scale up. Cameron Herold details every aspect of…

Agile People

Pia-Maria Thoren

Corporate cultures, global mindsets, and employee priorities are changing, which means management and human resources departments must also evolve. To ensure teams are well crafted, motivated, and successful, managers and HR professionals must step outside…

Entrepreneurial Compassion

Cal Riley · 2025

Discover the most important thing you can do for your business. As an entrepreneur, you have big dreams. You work constantly, but you’re burning out. Your best people keep leaving, you're not making the profits you should, and you’re exhausted. But you know…

The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck

How to Attract Top Talent and Build a Thriving Company Culture

Grant Botma · 2019

We’ve been made to believe that money is the ultimate motivator. We think that businesses who have high-end compensation packages attract the best talent and that well-compensated employees will be high performers and stay content. The stats and…

Give & Get Employer Branding

Repel the Many and Compel the Few with Impact, Purpose and Belonging

Bryan Adams · 2020

In today’s fiercely competitive job market, with the balance of power squarely in job-seekers’ hands, how can organizations attract and retain the most talented candidates, and the best additions to their culture? The answer may surprise you. The most…

Hiring Success

Jerome Ternynck

Who you hire defines everything, from business success down to who you are as a leader. That’s why hiring top talent is the #1 priority of most CEOs, and yet, studies show that the majority don’t believe they recruit highly talented people. As the talent…

The Great Engagement

How CEOs Create Exceptional Cultures

Tom Willis · 2024

Extraordinary organizations have extraordinary cultures. Fully engaged team members find personal meaning in their jobs, and in the company. Driven by a sense of purpose, they feel responsible, and accountable, for results. Personal development becomes the…

Breakthrough Leadership Team

Mike Goldman Goldman

This is NOT a leadership book. If you want to be the leader of a growing, profitable business that positively impacts the lives of employees and clients, it’ll take more than leveling up your capacity and capabilities as leader. It will require a leadership…

Recruiting Sucks...But It Doesn't Have To

Steve Lowisz · 2019

People are a business’s most important asset, but when it comes to hiring, practices are wildly out-of-date, relying on the same wisdom that has been used for over fifty years. It’s time to update how we recruit, by focusing on people, not process. In…

The Dream Machine

Dane Espegard · 2021

For a CEO or business owner, the teams you lead are the heart of your enterprise. An investment in their fulfillment is an investment in your company’s future. As the landscape rapidly changes, more than anyone could have foreseen, organizations are…

LOYAL

A Leader's Guide to Winning Customer and Employee Loyalty

Aaron Painter · 2017

Loyal employees attract loyal customers. Companies must adapt to evolving expectations and engage their employees in the same way that they engage their customers. Successful business leaders create a culture of listening across their organizations to inspire…

Hiring on Purpose

Max Hansen

You want to recruit quality leadership talent to give your company the ultimate advantage, but the candidate who looks ideal on paper may not be right for your business. Skills, qualifications, and background are never enough. You need to look beyond the…

The Remote Revolution

John Elston

Is it hard to recruit exceptional talent? Are you struggling to retain and inspire the employees you have? It's time to rethink hiring practices and examine a revolution that allows professionals to live and work remotely around the world, trading cubicles…

Almost Hired

Jackie Ducci · 2019

When you apply for a job but fail to get an interview, call back, or offer, no one tells you why. The fact is, most job seekers are unwittingly making critical mistakes at every stage of the hiring process, because the job-seeking advice they've always been…

Hire Better People Faster

A Proven System for Attracting the Employees You Want

Ryan Englin · 2023 · Audiobook

Finding great talent is crucial for the success of any business. Scrolling through countless job boards, reading endless resumes, and conducting interview after interview consumes precious time and often leads to bad hires. It’s a system in need of an…

RecOps

James Colino · 2022

There has never been a more difficult time to lead a Talent Acquisition function. Recruiting leaders are challenged daily to streamline processes, deploy technology, and leverage data in more ways than ever before. Fortunately, recruiting leaders can make…

Office Arcade

Jason Suriano

Reimagine Online Training: Transform Employee Engagement with GamificationTired of boring PowerPoint, uninspired PDFs, and outdated e-Learning methods? It’s time to revolutionize your approach to training. Office Arcade is your playbook for leveraging…

Raising Engineers

A Founder's Guide to Building a High-Performing Engineering Team

David Dettmer · 2022

You have the idea, the drive, and now the capital to create the company you’ve always envisioned. Now comes the most important part: assembling a team of high performers. To build a sustainable business, you need engineers who can execute on common goals.…

Win the Talent Game

Richard Brock · 2024

The legal industry is a constant competition. From getting into law school, to ranking in the top of your class, to securing a lucrative job, being a lawyer requires competing every step of the way. Law firms are no different. Law firms compete every day, and…

All Rise

by Benjamin Sachs (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Benjamin Sachs · 2022

Attorneys need high-performing teams that can work well under pressure. But in many organizations, especially large firms, attorneys are often left on their own to figure out how to build their teams, resulting in inconsistent and haphazard management that…

Love Your Team

Helen Fanucci · 2022

The hybrid work revolution has made sales management the most pivotal role in the innovation economy, and simultaneously the most challenging. The workforce power structure has flipped, putting every top seller in a position to write their own ticket. To…

Fractional Leadership

Landing Executive Talent You Thought Was Out of Reach

Benjamin Wolf · 2021 · Audiobook

Do you own a small or midsize business? Wish you could find (and afford) game-changing executive talent to take your business to the next level? Now, you can. Fractional Leadership shows you step-by-step how to land the experienced, been-there-done-that…