Aaron Sabin's Reviews > Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

This book presents different ways of thinking about professional talent, including understanding how different personality types match different roles, the importance of intelligence, interview techniques, and ways of spotting talent. I like the idea of thinking about identifying and recruiting talent as a "Moneyball" type of scheme. It was the first time I had thought about this topic in a structured way, so I appreciate the book for that alone. It was also very easy to read.

My complaints about the book are as follows: I have no idea why they decided to write the book alternating between first and third person ("Tyler thinks that...," "We would generally recommend..."). This was pretty annoying and comes off almost as self-obsessed. They also have this odd balance of wanting to be really scientifically/academically rooted but also wanting to theorize when there are no studies to draw upon. It's totally natural to want to do both of those things, but the way they executed it was by sometimes spending more time qualifying certain results or their conjectures than the actual statements of their arguments.