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How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department
(John Wiley & Sons, 2010, 199 pages) by Eric Herrenkohl
How to find great employees, make great hires, and take your business to the next level
It is always easy to find people who want a job, but it's never easy to find and hire A-players. In How to Hire A-Players, consultant Eric Herrenkohl shows owners, executives, and managers of small and medium-size businesses where and how to find A-player employees. It is these individuals who will help keep quality high and growth and profits strong.
Herrenkohl explains how to use your existing marketing, sales, and networking efforts to find top candidates. He provides current examples of companies that consistently hire A-players without big recruiting departments as well as step-by-step explanations for making these strategies work in your own company.
- Shows you how to find and hire top employees.
- Ideal for owners of small businesses, executives and managers of large businesses, as well as corporate recruiters and HR specialists who need new ideas
- Herrenkohl's client list includes privately held businesses in over 50 industries as well as big corporate names like Bank of America, Edward Jones, and Northwestern Mutual Life
A-player employees are the life blood of any growing business. This handy hiring guide shows you where to look, what to ask, and who to hire to boost your business today
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MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It
(Hyperion, 2009, 200 pages.) by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment--and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.
In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the ways in which to get--and keep--our Mojo. Our professional and personal Mojo is impacted by four key factors: identity (who do you think you are?), achievement (what have you done lately?), reputation (who do other people think you are--and what have you've done lately?), and acceptance (what can you change--and when do you need to just "let it go"?). Goldsmith outlines the positive actions leaders must take, with their teams or themselves, to initiate winning streaks and keep them coming.
Mojo is: that positive spirit--towards what we are doing--now--that starts from the inside--and radiates to the outside. Mojo is at its peak when we are experiencing both happiness and meaning in what we are doing and communicating this experience to the world around us. The Mojo Toolkit provides fourteen practical tools to help you achieve both happiness and meaning--not only in business, but in life.
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
(Portfolio 2009) by Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh
Practical insights on a wide variety of leadership and management topics from Bill Walsh, the three-time Super Bowl Champion coach of the San Francisco 49ers.
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Development of Professional Expertise: Toward Measurement of Expert Performance and Design of Optimal Learning Experiences
(Cambridge University Press 2009) Edited by K. Anders Ericsson
Professionals such as medical doctors, airplane pilots, lawyers, and technical specialists find that some of their peers have reached high levels of achievement that are difficult to measure objectively. In order to understand to what extent it is possible to learn from these expert performers for the purpose of helping others improve their performance, we first need to reproduce and measure this performance. This book is designed to provide the first comprehensive overview of research on the acquisition and training of professional performance as measured by objective methods rather than by subjective ratings by supervisors. In this collection of articles, the world's foremost experts discuss methods for assessing the experts' knowledge and review our knowledge on how we can measure professional performance and design training environments that permit beginning and experienced professionals to develop and maintain their high levels of performance, using examples from a wide range of professional domains.
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Hit the Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders
(Portfolio 2009) by Jason Jennings
One of the toughest jobs in business is taking over as a new leader. Jennings and his research team offer lessons from 10 dramatic transformations and the CEOs who led them.
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It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business is Driven by Purpose
(Portfolio, 2009) by Roy Spence with Haley Rushing
As one of the country's most successful ad execs, Spence is an expert on articulating a goal beyond making money. Now, the author shares his insider insights along with case studies to show readers how to discover their own purpose and apply it to everything they do.
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Click here to see Dan Coughlin's complete list of Recommended Books on Business Acceleration.
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