Hiring and Firing

The Brian Tracy Success Library

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Hiring and firing are hard to get right - and potentially costly to get wrong. Two of the most crucial tasks you face as a manager, they are vital to both the success of the enterprise...and your own career. No need to worry. This handy guide breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to bring better employees onboard - and weed out the weaker ones.

Featuring techniques that business expert Brian Tracy has identified as the most effective and that he himself employs, Hiring and Firing reveals how you can:

• Write appealing and accurate job descriptions
• Find suitable candidates
• Use the law of three when interviewing
• Ask the right questions
• Probe past performance
• Listen for the questions that indicate interviewees are qualified and serious
• Dig deep when checking references
• Negotiate salary
• Start new employees off strong
• Provide clear direction and regular feedback
• Document performance problems
• Dehire gracefully
• Create an appropriate severance package
• And more

Hiring and firing are key to improving your team and reaching your goals. This indispensable little book will help you eliminate the guesswork and make the best decisions for your business.

©2016 Brian Tracy (P)2016 Gildan Media LLC

Thank you for this book!

Concise, engaging and very helpful for both hiring and firing! I have listened to the audio book twice now! Thank you Brian Tracy!!

outstanding

this book has been well thought out and put together in perfection. I am glad I read this book

Be less tolerant

Today’s society wants to give everyone a participation trophy. That doesn’t work when livelihoods. The most successful companies were incredibly hard and tedious to apply and get hired. I gained a few good insights to hiring and Firing. Ive ran a business for over17 years and still felt like I learned a few things here.

Core Ideas... Core Principles

Every manager needs to listen to it once a year .... some times once a month ...

Very Helpful!

I wish I had read this about 10 years ago. I oversee a small company with about 20 employees. What I have learned from this book not only will help me in the hiring process, but also in the active management process. And it will help me in the firing, that inevitably happens in all organizations. I recently had to fire someone and if I had received the information from this book earlier, I would’ve done it a lot sooner which would’ve made it much easier for everyone. Thank you, Brian!

Great book to reference when hiring and firing

Great book, tons of gold nuggets of actual experience. A must listen for anyone in the position of hiring and firing

Short read and some good nuggets

The book is direct and conveys the knowledge quickly. The advice is practical and there are good sections. However, some of the advice is outdated - as long as you take it with a grain of salt and decide for yourself if it is relevant in today's world. In addition, the same advice is given for hiring first line workers as well as executives. Tips such as "rejecting the candidate" to see if they come back to apply again in a year won't work for most companies.