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 : Who: The A Method for Hiring

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.311
EAN: 9780345504197
ISBN: 0345504194
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Studio: Ballantine Books
Sales Rank: 771




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In this landmark book, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent.

The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate.

Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to

• avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods
• define the outcomes you seek
• generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople
• ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate
• attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most

In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good book on hiring
Great book on hiring the right people - If you hire right, 85% of your manager's job is complete!



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Clear, Concise and Actionable
Finally, a business book that is clear, concise and actionable. This book very clearly lays out the authors' methodology for hiring great people. This methodology is complete, easy to understand and is presented in a way you can truly incorporate into you business. We started using this methodology with our most recent open position and although we have not successfully hired anyone, we have screened out two candidates who looked really good on paper but ultimately would not have been a fit. NOT ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Easy-to-Read, a True Mirror & Actionable
I rate WHO 5 stars for 3 primary reasons:

Easy-to-Read - If a resource is to be useful, it must be accessible. The book was so easy to read, that when I gave a copy to a fellow executive of my company (an operator who has hired 100s of people over his nearly 30-year career), he read it over the weekend and has found it very valuable. Candidly, I was surprised that he had completed it when we talked the following Monday. We have since talked about how to effect some recommended changes ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Who: The A Method For Hiring
This book has a lot going for it. In short, I really enjoyed reading it and found the authors' insights very practical. A few highlights:

- The authors give a very simple framework to use for a critical task (i.e., hiring the right people) where most people aren't very proficient.
- The authors have an engaging and easy to read writing style.
- The book is full of real world examples.
- The authors' firm works with blue chip clients employing this framework. Therefore, ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Superlative business book!
"Who" is an incredibly valuable book. It also is as much of a page-turner as any business book I've ever read.

The authors take on perhaps the #1 challenge facing anyone in a leadership position: how do you find good people to successfully enact your institutional mission and vision? Based on their own consulting experience and exhaustive research among a virtual "who's who" of CEOs and managers, Mr. Smart and Mr. Street take the reader step-by-step through the how-to's and, perhaps even ... Read More



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