Who

The A Method for Hiring

By: Geoff Smart, Randy Street

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

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

Great Book & Problematic Narration

Excellent breakdown of how to properly interview candidates. Exceptional step by step instructions.

The narrator, however, made a hugely problematic choice when voicing the words of a non-american executive with a Spanish last name. Although his words and sentence structure are in perfect and grammatically correct English, the narrator uses affected English to communicate his assumption that the executive would speak accented, stilted English.

As a multi-lingual American I found this so exceptionally offensive and othering that it genuinely took me out of the book. It was extremely distracting, xenophobic and pointless. It was very disappointing and left me with a less than stellar feeling about the book - which the Authors do not deserve.

A peaceful vacation is now realistic

For 8 years I haven't had an uninterrupted vacation due to my business and the people in place. Now I actually think it's realistic to expect one in the next year or two.
Invaluable learnings from this book!

Excellent!

Great techniques to hiring your A team. Well thought out and perfectly presented. Great read.

Great Book

Very Helpful! Practical guidelines and a step by step approach. I feel confident that using these methods will help me build an A team

Clear outline of Who to hire

The concept for entrepreneurs of being the bottleneck in their own business emphasizes Who should listen to this book. “A” Players are key and no one, not even the founder or CEO can grow without hiring for their weaknesses.

This book is good for companies looking to go from contract 1099 employees to W2’s and all the way up to established companies in the Valley of Death trying to scale up through a change on the executive leadership team. Who is also aimed at middle managers and A-players in supervisory roles to encourage them to always be on the lookout for A-players.

A must “listen” for Entrepreneurs.

Well worth your time.

This book helps you take a more disciplined approach to hiring AND evaluating your own career. Very good 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.