Who

The A Method for Hiring

By: Geoff Smart, Randy Street

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

It's happened to the best of us. You have a job opening to fill. You interview a range of qualified candidates and hire the best of the bunch - or so you think. You soon realize that the person who seemed like a perfect fit during the interview doesn't have what it takes to do the job.

In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street, of the management consulting firm ghSmart, combine their experiences training thousands of managers and executives with the most revealing and comprehensive research ever on the subject of how to hire successfully, as well as advice and stories from more than 20 billionaires and 60 CEOs. The result is a simple, four-step method for hiring with confidence, designed for everyone from the CEO on down. Who shows you how to avoid the most common pitfalls of hiring, how to identify "A Players" - people who can perform their job better than 90 percent of the candidates in their field - and how to make sure the best candidate will be excited to join your organization.

Hiring is every bit as important an element of successful business as other key principles, such as leadership and strategy. Who should be required listening for anyone in a management position.

©2008 Geoff Smart (P)2008 Tantor

Top Three Business Book of All Time

I've experienced that having the right people is by far the most important factor to make a business successful. More important than having the best ideas, best strategy, most capital, etc. And THIS book is the best process to use to find and hire the best people. We will be thoroughly implementing this process at Hunter Rowe. My other best business books are Traction (by Gino Wickman) and Good to Great. My favorite business biography is "Titan: The John D Rockefeller Story".

Who Review

Really great book. I am actually planning to read again and take notes, because this book provides a lot of useful information.

Well designed strategies for hiring

Well designed strategies for a leader's most important task. Great ideas for hiring right the first time.

fantastic book!

A must read for HR or small business owners. The technique presented definitely helps pinning down the right candidate for your business.

Great book! Highly recommend

Excellent - gives a wonderful structure and is full of practical wisdom and a process to execute.

Accents of quoted material pretty bad

The book is great. The narrator takes on a ridiculous accent, awkwardly, when he mimics the language of British and Hispanic CEOs being interviewed. And the “peek under the kimono” reference (!) has since been replaced by a more appropriate metaphor in the printed book today. It’s an older recording, so there’s that. But what an awesome book!

Here's the missing link to materials!

Great read but as mentioned in previous reviews, Audible is missing the link to the accompanying materials. A bit of digging yielded this: https://whothebook.com/smarttools-for-leaders/

Hope this helps!

awesome

this is a very informative book about how to hire a divisionals and outlining the key traits and elements. people are more important than resources and will be the key drivers to success. The book shares with you information about how to take through and do due diligence to find individuals who are better fits for the culture and the skill set needed for the job.

Now I know what to ask in an interview!

Such clear, concise, rich advice on how to think about and execute great hiring! It will make all the difference in a managers career!

Exceptional

What made the experience of listening to Who the most enjoyable?

This book is in my top 5 business books out of about 200. It is incredibly informative, and provides meaningful and easy to follow techniques for the single most important aspect of good business: hiring the right people. I told a lot of people about this book excitedly.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Who?

Some stories had me laughing out loud.

Have you listened to any of Patrick Lawlor’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Of all the audible books, this narrator was my favorite. He is most definitely different, but I found his way of speaking to "sharp", and greatly helped me remember the material.