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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101591840813

ISBN-139781591840817

eBay Product ID (ePID)43456806

Product Key Features

Book TitleTopgrading (revised PHP Edition) : How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicLeadership, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Industrial Management, Mentoring & Coaching, Management, Workplace Culture

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreBusiness & Economics

AuthorBradford D. Smart

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight29.3 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-043178

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsTopgrading is the definitive manual for becoming an A player and for recognizing those traits in others. (Larry Bossidy, coauthor of Execution )

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal658.4

Grade ToUP

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisGreat companies don't just depend on strategies--they depend on people. The more great people on your team, the more successful your organization will be. But that's easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mishire: The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Bradford Smart's advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90 percent or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage. Now Smart has fully revised his 1999 management classic to reintroduce the topgrading concept, which works for companies large and small in any industry. The author spells out his practical approach to finding and managing A-level talent--as well as coaching B players to turn them into A players. He provides intriguing case studies drawn from more than four thousand in-depth interviews. As Smart writes in his introduction, "All organizations, all businesses live or die mostly on their talent, and any manager who fails to topgrade is nuts, or a C player. . . . Those who, way deep down, would sooner see an organization die than nudge an incompetent person out of a job should not read this book... Topgrading is for A players and all those aspiring to be A players." On the web: http: //www.topgrading.com/, Great companies don't just depend on strategies-they depend on people. The more great people on your team, the more successful your organization will be. But that's easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mishire: The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Bradford Smart's advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90 percent or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage.Now Smart has fully revised his 1999 management classic to reintroduce the topgrading concept, which works for companies large and small in any industry. The author spells out his practical approach to finding and managing A-level talent-as well as coaching B players to turn them into A players. He provides intriguing case studies drawn from more than four thousand in-depth interviews.As Smart writes in his introduction, All organizations, all businesses live or die mostly on their talent, and any manager who fails to topgrade is nuts, or a C player. . . . Those who, way deep down, would sooner see an organization die than nudge an incompetent person out of a job should not read this book... Topgrading is for A players and all those aspiring to be A players.On the web: http://www.topgrading.com/

LC Classification NumberHD31.S5776 2005