Topgrading, 3rd Edition

'BRAD HELPED US DEVELOP THE TOOLS TO PICK A-PLAYER LEADERS AT GE.' --JACK WELCH Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that's easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high performers. But companies that have used Brad Smart's Topgrading system over the past two decades have boosted their hiring success rates dramatically--sometimes even to 90%. Three huge problems account for the typical poor results in hiring: dishonesty (via deceptive r sum s), incomplete information (via shallow interviews), and lack of verifiability (via biased references). Topgrading shows how to solve all three problems. Instead of hir-ing by your gut reactions to r sum s and interviews, you can start using a scientifically honed process that compels candidates to be totally honest. Smart, one of the world's foremost experts on hiring,