Who, Geoff Smart
Who, Geoff Smart
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Who
The A Method for Hiring

Author: Geoff Smart, Randy Street

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/15/2008


Synopsis

It's happened to the best of us. You have a job opening to fill. You interview a range of qualified candidates and hire the best of the bunch—or so you think. You soon realize that the person who seemed like a perfect fit during the interview doesn't have what it takes to do the job.

In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street, of the management consulting firm ghSmart, combine their experiences training thousands of managers and executives with the most revealing and comprehensive research ever on the subject of how to hire successfully, as well as advice and stories from more than twenty billionaires and sixty CEOs. The result is a simple, four-step method for hiring with confidence, designed for everyone from the CEO on down. Who shows you how to avoid the most common pitfalls of hiring, how to identify "A Players"—people who can perform their job better than 90 percent of the candidates in their field—and how to make sure the best candidate will be excited to join your organization.

Hiring is every bit as important an element of successful business as other key principles, such as leadership and strategy. Who should be required listening for anyone in a management position.

About Geoff Smart

Geoff Smart is chairman and CEO of ghSMART, a consulting firm that offers services in management assessment, leadership coaching, and executive learning. Smart has published articles in Fortune and frequently lectures around the country. He lives in Evergreen, Colorado, with his wife and four children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ann on January 31, 2009

"Who: The A Method for Hiring" by Geoff Smart One-third of this book is an advertisement for itself: how great it is, how the methods are truly awesome, tested, etc. The book is for hiring CEOs and financial industry managers, not your day-to-day workers. The advice can be boiled down to a few principl......more

Goodreads review by Ola on June 28, 2016

Great read on implementing a highly effective hiring process that not only aids with recruiting A players, but also assists in improving review, promotion and success planning. If you're an employer, employee, person who makes a living working with others, or just interested in the people aspect of b......more

Goodreads review by David on July 12, 2011

Read it because Gawande recommended it in his excellent Checklist Manifesto; it's not terrible, but could be distilled into much less text and it's laced with advertisements for their consulting service. Has some worthwhile methods, however - the scorecard, topgrading, determining fit.......more

Goodreads review by Andy on August 19, 2020

I got this because Atul Gawande recommends it in "The Checklist Manifesto" as a validated way to hire. I got some useful tips here (summarized elsewhere in GR reviews), but I can't say it's a great book. Some aspects seem suspect. For example, for proof of how well the author's system works, he uses......more