Book description
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.…
Why read it?
1 author picked Who as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am hungry for a world where everyone thrives in our healthy, working decades, and a key to meaningful work delivered well is great hiring decisions.
Who opened my eyes to the true cost of poor hiring decisions, as the impact of a ‘misfit’ for the person hired without the experience, behaviors, skills, and capacity to learn and adapt to change affects everyone around them, in addition to the bottom line.
We applied some of Geoff Smart and Randy Street’s direction and ideas when we shaped the hiring processes at Niaga, taking it even deeper by giving the teams responsibility…
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