Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do about It

by Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Wayne Brockbank

#1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Dave Ulrich offers HR professionals a new line of defense in the corporate “war for talent.”

Destined to be a classic in the field, this game-changing book from HR visionary Dave Ulrich tackles one of the greatest challenges in Human Resources today: the talent wars. As companies grow increasingly and aggressively competitive in hiring and nurturing individual employees, this book offers a refreshing, revolutionary alternative. By creating dynamic systems that leverage talent throughout the organization, you can create a unified whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. In the long run, that’s what gives your company the competitive edge it needs.

Based on the research findings of the latest round of Ulrich’s legendary HR Competency Survey, this groundbreaking book is sure to spark debate, shatter myths, and inspire real change throughout the HR community. Filled with fact-based insights and field-tested strategies, it proves that your organization’s success lies, not in the talent you have, but what you do with the talent once you have it. This book shows you how to build capabilities, strengthen systems, and empower human capital—for longer lasting success.

Genres: Historical Romance, Business, Management

417 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 7, 2017

About the author

David Olson Ulrich is a university professor, author, speaker, management coach, and management consultant. Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of The RBL Group

Reviews

[Katarina · Rating 3 out of 5]

The whole book is about defining HR competencies. It's the result of scientific research and it reads much like a scientific paper. It's packed with data, tables, lists and definitions. They're freshened up with real life cases where the competency discussed was used, but the definition part is much more prevalent.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is not deeply interested in HR competencies, narrowing the audience to HR professionals and their bosses. To non HR people interested in HR, I doubt this book would be of much value, or that they would pull through the dry writing. On the other hand, I highly recommend it anyone trying to run an HR department.

[Kay · Rating 2 out of 5]

This reads like someone's doctoral thesis that they decided to convert into a book. Theres some good info there but I wouldn't recommend this as a casual read. Most info is not presented in an interesting way.

[Paul Young · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm torn on this one because I have 2 purposes for checking out this book.

For just my own knowledge and development, my rating is a 3 - well written, good details, and good build on Ulrich and company's previous research/books.

I was hoping to use this book as a text for my HR Management class and I don't think it's appropriate for my needs. I currently use the Outside/In book and like it very much. This, though, is not right for my needs.

[Jesse Tucker · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first half studies data from the authors' HR competency studies among other external statistics, then uses that information to explain current trends and how HR is related to the organization as a whole. I did not find a lot of takeaway from chapters 1-5 as there are a lot of facts about HR, but not a lot of advice or suggested action items. I found Chapters 6-11 applicable as they discuss the nine competencies (based on Ulrich's 2016 HR Competency Model) which make effective HR professionals and provide ways to personally develop to meet an organization's needs.

[Hani Alahdal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting and breakthrough ideas for HR practitioner to implement

[Ankit Pant · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a nice book. After reading the book you will get a better sense of Org. Cap. linked with Indi. Talents.