How do venture capitalists pick winners like Apple? How do the FBI's hostage rescue team find agents for the world's toughest job? How do Hollywood casting agents and major sports scouts size up the best talent? There's a huge difference between the very best performers and everyone else; in terms of productivity there's a five-to-one gap. No one can afford to settle for mediocrity. So how do talent scouts in every field identify genius and put it to work? Talking to the world's best, most secretive talent scouts, George Anders found that they all share an intense belief in finding high achievers who can create big successes. These are the arenas where brilliant recruiting is most vital - and in "The Rare Find" Anders reveals how the rest of us can learn the hidden 'tells' that really matter. Pairing these frontline observations with cutting-edge research from psychiatrists, economists, recruiters and business strategists, Anders shows how anyone can hone the ability to recognize future greatness and discover tomorrow's stars.

Product Description: One of the nation's biggest music labels briefly signed Taylor Swift to a contract but let her go because she didn't seem worth more than $15,000 a year. At least four book publishers passed on the first Harry Potter novel rather than pay J...read more

Product Description: Electrical grids are, in general, among the most reliable systems in the world. These large interconnected systems, however, are subject to a host of challenges - aging infrastructure, transmission expansion to meet growing demand, distributed resources, and congestion management, among others...read more

Documents the struggle between the sons of Hewlett-Packard's founders and the company's powerful woman CEO to retain controlling interest over the company, describing the differences that set each side at opposition and tracing Fiorina's experiences behind the scenes. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Documents the struggle between the sons of Hewlett-Packard's founders and the company's powerful woman CEO to retain controlling interest over the company, describing the differences that set each side at opposition and tracing Fiorina's experiences behind the scenes. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: First published in 1992 (by Basic Books), this reprint is timely now in the wake of Enron and WorldCom. Anders tells the story of how Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) took advantage of Wall Street's tolerance of debt to finagle massive corporate takeovers of companies that included Safeway, Drexel, an...read more

A senior writer for Wall Street Journal presents a chilling investigative report on Health Maintenance Organizations that shows how the HMO system's cost-saving rules can jeopardize lives in an emergency. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been archetypes, first of Wall Street's boom years and then of its excesses. Their story and that of their firm - the biggest, most successful and most controversial participant in the age of leverage - illuminates an entire era of financial high jinks and speculative mania...read more