About Who: The A Method for Hiring
In this instant New York Times Bestseller, 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.
- Complete Title: Who: The A Method for Hiring
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 208
- Publication Time: September 30, 2008
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 0345504194
- ISBN13: 9780345504197
About Geoff Smart
Geoff Smart
Dr. Geoff Smart is Chairman & Founder of ghSMART, a leadership consulting firm that serves Fortune 500 CEOs and boards, billionaire entrepreneurs, and heads of state. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Who, Leadocracy, and Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success.
Reviews Who: The A Method for Hiring
“Who: The A Method for Hiring” by Geoff SmartOne-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 fina…
Ann
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, e…
Ola Olusoga
Это лучшая книга по тому, как подбирать персонал в свою компанию…
Pavel Annenkov
HmmSound advice but the content is more befitting a blog post than a book…padded like a high school English paper trying to hit a word count…
Greg
My boss asked me to read this. It’s basically a couple of blog posts stitched together with some redundant anecdotes and a bunch of unnecessary fluff. Knowing there are people in the world out there w…
Cody
This book easily could have been a blog post. There are a few good tidbits, but they are wrapped in a giant turd of a business book that rattles on about ‘the “A” method for hiring,’ and other zingers…
Brian D.
This was recommended as THE book for hiring by Matt Mullenwegg (the “WordPress founder”) on his Tim Ferriss podcast.It starts from the basic premise that the Who is by far the most important decis…
Märt
Why are most examples of successful leaders in this book male, whereas struggling ones female?I feel this book suffers from several cognitive biases. If all you are looking for is A players that are w…
Sebastian Perez Saaibi
Great book on hiring A players. The keys to the successful hiring (according to the book) are in- always be hiring. constantly look for new leads, due to the high demand for A players need to get lot…