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If you've worked in corporate America, you've seen it happen countless times — the brightest and most talented people leave the company for a "better opportunity." They're the ones you knew you could count on. They are the innovative thinkers, the ones who jump in and roll up their sleeves to get the project done.

If you are their peer, you've wondered how management could let them go. If you're the manager faced with departing talent, and you've tried to keep them with bigger salaries, a lofty title, maybe even some great perks, you're frustrated. While some talent responded (for a while), others walked out the door leaving you with a dent in your talent pool and wondering how you will find adequate replacements. It has been estimated that the real cost of losing one talented person is between 70 and 200 percent of his or her annual salary.

Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay (Berrett-Koehler) will provide you with 26 strategies that you can use to keep your talented employees home, happy, and producing for the enterprise. The authors suggest that the manager can instill a retention culture by focusing on innovative techniques that are working to retain employees in some of the best companies in America.

Citing research and experience with dozens of organizations, authors Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans provide examples of how today's companies have applied these principles and increased their retention rates. Each chapter offers ready-to-use strategies that managers can begin implementing immediately.

Finding, recruiting and training talented employees that are the right match for your company is a major investment. Once you've captured these key resources, the return-on-investment requires closing the back door and preventing talent drain. Kaye and Jordan-Evans show you how.

Availability:

Purchase from your favorite bookseller or directly from the publisher Berrett-Koehler for $20.95 retail, or at a discounted single-unit price online from the 800-CEO-READ website, or at a discounted volume price from Career Systems International.