Bold new ideas that help managers get the work done in the age of flexible staffing. Cradle-to-grave job security went out the window with 1980s corporate downsizing. A new generation has been hired fully prepared to fend for themselves in the free-agent marketplace. Woe be to their managers, as talented people come and go like professional baseball players.

It's a war out there, a war for talent, and the managers and companies who win will become the most agile, productive competitors in the global marketplace. Management expert Bruce Tulgan, highly sought-after consultant on staffing issues and author of Managing Generation X, the classic study of Generation X in the workplace, offers his six principles of staffing in today's work environment. This book will change fundamentally the way managers think about building a team of talented workers.