Eight Ways To Win And Keep Top Performers (at Forbes.com)

James B. Norton, Fiderion 10.06.08, 6:00 PM ET Financial services executives have little difficulty appreciating the importance of high-caliber human resources. The challenges lay in identifying the best people, attracting them and retaining their services. Here we present eight strategies, tactics, realities and attitudes necessary to win top talent. In an industry that has literally been hiring rocket scientists for years and putting them to work as "financial engineers," it should not be difficult to establish the importance of talent. Financial services firms realize that high-caliber leaders, managers and product developers are critical in service-oriented professions. Because weak talent attracts more weak talent, financial services firms are starting to see recruitment and retention as a way to break out of... [read full story]