I’ve had the honor of working with famous CEOs that expected and got A Player heads of Human Resources. Some HR heads rose to CEO (John Hoffmeister, Shell) and others were retained when a new CEO was named (Bill Conaty, under Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt). But, too often HR has the suffered the Rodney …
There are some relatively simple ways to estimate how much your mis-hires hurt your profits. I had two such discussions with CEOs last week, and they went like this: Brad: How many sales reps did you hire last year? (“1,000”) Brad: What percent have turned out to be mis-hires, falling short of the minimum quota? (“75%”) …
Whether you are a Topgrader or not, these proven methods can save you a lot a time but maintain the standard of hiring all high performers, for ALL jobs. We keep learning from clients the time-saving methods that they have discovered, so this is a series of blogs and might go on and on indefinitely! …
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Whether you are a Topgrader or not, these proven methods can save you a lot a time but maintain the standard of hiring all high performers, for ALL jobs. We keep learning from clients the methods that they have discovered, so this is a series of blogs and might go on and on indefinitely! Before …
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