I'm re-reading a book by Brian Tracy called Hire and Keep the Best People. Here's a couple highlights from chapter one: Make Selection Your Top Priority
- Nothing is more important to your future than your ability to select the right people to work with you to make that future a reality.
- Fully 95 percent of the success of any enterprise is determined by the people chosen to work in that enterprise in the first place. If you get this right, everything else will usually work out all right as well. If you select the wrong people, nothing else will work.
- Hire slowly and fire fast. Take your time to make the right decision prior to hiring in the first place.
- Hiring is an art. It cannot be rushed. You must take your time if you really want to hire well. Fast hiring decisions usually turn out to be wrong hiring decisions. The basic principle of going slow whenever you can is solid and irrefutable. It will greatly increase your overall success rate in hiring.
- The very best companies and the best managers have the best selection processes.
- Sometimes the best hiring decision you ever make is the one you decide not to make in the first place.
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