Topgrading, 3rd Edition: The Proven Hiring and Promoting Method That Turbocharges Company Performance
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591845262 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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This edition now features 40 companies of all sizes, across a wide range of industries and home countries. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high performers. Smart, one of the world’s foremost experts on hiring, has personally helped hundreds of companies double, triple, or even quadruple their hiring success rates. It enables leaders to reward their A Players, coach their Bs to become As, and weed out the Cs who are beyond improvement.Many great leaders know that Topgrading works. His clients have ranged from global giants such as General Electric and Honeywell to midsize and small businesses in every field imaginable, and to not-for-profits such as the American Heart Association. “B
Brad lives in a suburb of Chicago.Visit Topgrading. BRADFORD D. A well-known industrial psychologist and consultant, he has personally helped hundreds of companies of all sizes dramatically improve their talent. SMART, PH.D., is the president of Smart & Associates, Inc., a group of professionals who
Amazon Customer said Relentless self-promotion, and Kindle graphics are useless. The author has developed a method for screening candidates which is probably worthwhile. The book (and especially, the Kindle version) have serious problems that reduce its value considerably. The first Relentless self-promotion, and Kindle graphics are useless The author has developed a method for screening candidates which is probably worthwhile. The book (and especially, the Kindle version) have serious problems that reduce its value considerably. The first 3 chapters are relentless, relentless, relentless self-promotion of his method and his according-to-him spectacular results and fabulous relationships with famous people. Good for you, but you've wasted hours of my life getting to the meat of your book. In the Kindle version the diagrams and illustrations are not scalable graphics, so they ar. chapters are relentless, relentless, relentless self-promotion of his method and his according-to-him spectacular results and fabulous relationships with famous people. Good for you, but you've wasted hours of my life getting to the meat of your book. In the Kindle version the diagrams and illustrations are not scalable graphics, so they ar. "Book is repetitively self-congratulatorysteps on how to complete are buried in unnecessary stories of author's glory days" according to Michelle Lebovitz. The author spends a lot of time trying to keep on selling his bookwhich i already purchased. Book would be better if the author stops "patting himself on the back" and restating how great the process is and just get to details on what the process actually is, and allow the reader to decide if the process is worthy of praise.. Heavy read mt6789 Informative, but extremely detailed. Sometimes difficult to read through all of the information - definitely not a book to leave on your night stand, more of a book to read in your free time at work.
A Topgraded team is the ultimate secret weapon to crush the competition.”—RICHARD ROSSI, Co-Founder, EnvisionEMI“We’ve Topgraded the entire company and our sales and profits have soared.”—ORRIN KLOPPER, CEO, Netsurit. Nothing else even comes close. It probably improved our success promoting high-potential managers from maybe 50% to over 80%.”—BILL CONATY, former Senior Vice President of Human Resources, General Electric“The most valuable management skill a person can have is the ability to produce high-talent teams. That’s why Brad Smart’s Topgrading approach should be a top priority process in your organization.”—PRICE PRITCHETT, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, PRITCHETT LP“Topgrading is the best practice I know of for hiring and promoting people who t