The book does not fit the classic notion of an eruditive treatise but the conclusions it throws open are supported by extensive empirical study. The authors ask the readers to consider the following question: "Your company's most valuable assets will walk out of the door, at the end of today. What makes them want to come back tomorrow passionately feeling about contributing to your business?"

Leadership Talent in Asia: How the Best Employers : Deliver Extraordinary Performance.The book does not fit the classic notion of an eruditive treatise but the conclusions it throws open are supported by extensive empirical study. The authors ask the readers to consider the following question: "Your company's most valuable assets will walk out of the door, at the end of today. What makes them want to come back tomorrow passionately feeling about contributing to your business?".The rest of the book is an attempt to answer this question. Though the book is basically meant for CEOs, it has enough material of interest to all practising managers and students of management.

The initial chapters are an attempt to sell the book and the study on which it is based by showing how unique the study happens to be. Not withstanding this obvious self-marketing effort, the rest of the book shows the practical slant and the variety of sources the authors draw upon. The authors begin by pointing out that one out of every three employees in the Asia-Pacific region (the study is based on industries in Asia- Pacific region) would rather not go for work if he had a choice. The study has divided select industries into two buckets of 75 and 230 where the 230 belong to the `rest of' category, the 75 belong to the successful category. The parameters of the selection are not divulged. According to the study, `Care for Employees' seems to be a sine qua non for most successful companies where leadership talent and culture emerge as the key agenda.

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