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10 Tips for Hiring Awesome Employees

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Management is easy when you have great employees! Invest the time in hiring the best people and you won’t have to invest the time later in in dealing with difficult … Read more

10 Tips for Hiring Great Employees

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This post first appeared in Smartblog on Leadership on 10/24: I feel like I’m a little out of my element when it comes to giving recruiting advice. While I’ve written … Read more

An Introduction to Assessment Centers

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A reader asked me to provide a primer on assessment centers. While I’ve written a lot of posts on the topics of leadership potential, assessments, and selection interviewing, I’ve never … Read more

How to Read Your Way into the Executive Suite

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Here’s an eye-opening and provacative post by Brad Smart, reprinted with his permission from his Topgrading blog: A Player executives have very common reading habits, and what they read varies dramatically from … Read more

Americans Are Unethical in Getting Jobs

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Here’s an article by Brad Smart, one of the world’s foremost experts on hiring and a frequent guest blogger at Great Leadership. Brad has published six books on hiring including … Read more

How to Hire High Performers

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You may have seen me write about Topgrading before. I’ve been using and teaching this talent management sytem for a couple of years now. Founder Brad Smart has fine-tuned best … Read more

Fix Management Weakness First

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I’ve had the opportunity to become a student of the “Topgrading” methodology for talent management. I’ve worked with Brad Smart to implement his hiring system within one of our sales … Read more