A-Players
The world that created yesterday’s A-Players no longer exists.
AI now does work that once required whole teams. Geopolitical shocks, new technologies, and a higher cost of capital can upend a sound business model almost overnight. The demands on leaders have changed.
So has the definition of an A-Player.
For years, companies assumed a candidate's past successes would repeat across roles, but triumphs in one context do not guarantee them in another. In today's age, what matters is whether a leader can frame a problem, make decisions under uncertainty, adapt to new and complex challenges, and deliver against the mandate ahead. Get a hire wrong, and the cost compounds across every decision, team, and year.
A-Players: Defining Exceptional Talent and Hiring for the New World is built on that conviction and decades of experience. It sets a new standard for outstanding leadership and a clear architecture for hiring for it, by assessing how A-Players think, how they work, and what they consistently produce.
The strategy outlined in A-Players helps organizations and leaders define what their next chapter requires, decide whom to hire and promote, assess whether the people already in place are right for their roles, and identify skills they themselves need to further develop.
Based on real-world experience, the concepts in this book stem from thousands of executive assessments and hundreds of leadership appointments, all measured against the one thing that matters: whether the leader went on to create extraordinary value.
Read this book to make better calls about talent. Put it in the hands of everyone who makes those calls, and raise the ceiling of the entire organization.
Anish Batlaw has spent over thirty-five years building high-performing leadership teams across public and private companies. A managing director at General Atlantic, he held senior roles at PepsiCo, Microsoft, Novartis, and TPG Capital. He has worked with professional sports organizations and nonprofit leaders. He coproduced Tanvi the Great, a film exploring courage, resilience, and inclusion, and serves on a philanthropic advisory council of the SP & Seema Lohia Cardiovascular Clinical Institute at Mount Sinai. Coauthor of Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier, he writes about leadership, talent, and AI at anishbatlaw.substack.com.
,Jessica Neal is the former chief talent officer at Netflix, where she helped shape one of the world’s most influential cultures. Today, she works with executives and organizations to rethink talent, leadership, and organizational design for a new era of work. Her perspective centers on a simple belief: as AI changes how work gets done, human judgment becomes the ultimate advantage.
,Ram Charan advises and serves on boards across the US, China, India, and Brazil. For six decades he has been an ardent advocate of people before strategy. His clients trust him to spot A-Players and place them in roles where they flourish. A recipient of numerous awards and named GE’s best teacher at Crotonville for thirty years, he has authored thirty-seven books and five bestsellers. His new book, China’s 90% Model, will impact CHROs across the globe.
- ISBN-13
- 9798900264974
- Publisher
- Amplify Publishing Group
- Imprint
- Thinkers50 Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 280
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
- Language
- English