Talent powered companies not only recruit the best, they also retain the best through several employee-centered strategies. They focus on ten building blocks:
- Threat the workplace as a system
- Promote ethics, integrity, honesty, and trust
- Create organizational feedback loops
- Put people first
- Instill an ethic of fairness
- Accept diversity
- Encourage openness
- Make work and the workplace fun
- Develop employee connectivity
- View people management as a strategic business issue

As the authors point out, smart managers not only identify and hire talented people based upon specific competencies; they also inspire and able staff to achieve their very best. In the end, creating a talent powered organization by hiring and retaining the best is all about your employees first.