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Videos and Online Articles
∗ Topgrading Method for hiring A Players at your Start-up Founders&Tips, 2015 (Article in Spanish)
∗ Retaining Your High Performers Risk&Business, 2015
∗ How Topgrading Helped One Commercial Insurer Hire Nearly All ‘A’-Level Managers Carrier Management, 2013
∗ Weeding Out Bad Employees CNNMoney.com video interview with Brad Smart
∗ Hone Your Interviewing Techniques CNNMoney.com video interview with Brad Smart
Topgrading for Sales Inc. Magazine YouTube (2 minutes)
Must-Reads for B-Schoolers Eyeing Careers on Wall Street The Wall Street Journal Online
The Costs of CEO Failure Chief Executive
Find Your Hire Power Small Business Review
Published Articles
Tough CEOs Often Most Successful, A Study Finds The Wall Street Journal Online
Looking to Hire the Very Best? Fortune Magazine
Ten Ways to Hire Top Performers Baseline.com
Forced Ranking Still Championed by Some Wall Street Journal
Corporate Therapy (Featuring Dr. Brad Smart) Wall Street Journal
Get Your “A” Players Here Workforce Management cover story
∗ Topgrading Recruiter.com
How to Topgrade Leadership Excellence
High Cost of Mis-Hires Paper360
Topgrading: Power Tool for Boosting Recruitment Sales Recruiter.com
How to Hire High Performing Maintenance Personnel DOM Magazine
The Topgrading Approach to Succession Planning SCI
How A Players Make Decisions Switched on Leadership
Radio Interviews
Brad Smart – BizTalk Radio Interview July 31, 2013
Brad Smart – Mark Deo Interview