Getting the People Equation Right

Book excerpt: Getting the People Equation Right outlines a proven formula for making good people decisions and avoiding hiring mistakes-a practical method for getting the right people in the right jobs and keeping them. Getting the People Equation Right shows the reader how to identify strong performance potential: people who can both do the job and who have the traits and qualities needed to excel in the job. Readers learn how to discover why current top performers perform so well and how to use that understanding to hire other top performers. The author provides intriguing insight into counter-productive job behaviors such as being harsh, authoritarian, dogmatic, permissive, inflexible or dominating. The author also shows how to identify these counter-productive behaviors in people before you hire them. Getting the People Equation Right examines five simple but powerful management practices that great managers use to retain top talent. In short, Getting the People Equation Right offers readers a practical method for getting the right people in the right jobs, together with concrete management practices that help managers retain top talent and build great places to work.