TOPGRADING, 3RD EDITION

The fully revised and updated hiring and management classic. This topgrading concept works for companies large and small in any industry.

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 of course that’s easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mis-hire. The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Brad Smart’s advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90% or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage. Now Smart has fully revised and updated his hiring and management classic for the first time since 2005. His topgrading concept 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 casestudies drawn from more than 4,000 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.” Bradford D. Smart, Ph.D, is President of Smart & Associates, Inc., based in the Chicago area. A well-known industrial psychologist and consultant with nearly 35 years in practice, he has workedwith dozens of major companies, including General Electric, Bank of America, and John Deere. He is frequently called one of the world’s foremost experts on hiring.