The Best Team Wins: Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring

by Adam Robinson

Reduce Hiring Risks and Predict Success

New Mindset . In The Best Team Wins , author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people.

New Methods . Robinson, a recruiting professional with over twenty years experience, shows you how to— Better Results . By following Robinson's in-depth process, you can eliminate guesswork and focus on building a team that will bring value to your company's culture and bottom line.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Leadership, Historical Romance, Human Resources, Recruitment, Professional Development

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the modern world, the key assets that many companies “own” are their intellectual property (IP) and the skills of their employees. There are many adages regarding the value of knowledge and experience as well as the enormous differences in the value of the top performers versus the average achievers. Yet, the process of evaluating and analyzing potential new hires often does not reflect these facts.
The purpose of this book is twofold, to argue that the hiring process is not a place to attempt to rush and save money and to give a series of tactics that can be used to quantify what is largely a subjective process. Robinson succeeds in both these endeavors. When reading the book, I was reminded of the great college basketball coach John Wooden, he was always telling his players, “Be quick, but don’t hurry.” In other words, wait for the opening to develop and then move quickly.
The extensive deliberative and vetting process put forward in this book will not guarantee that you avoid a bad hire. Human behavior and the world is far too complex for that. However, what it can do is dramatically reduce the probability of such an event. Given the salaries of high quality employees, the total cost of employees and the potential value of your IP that will be in their heads, the more you can lower the probability of making an error, the better your bottom line. I strongly recommend that all people involved in the hiring process read this book.

[Jaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought it'll be about building the best team, but it's on recruitment. This book contains sample questions and framework for the different stages of interviewing the candidates from what to look out for on CV, phone screening, FTF interviews for job competencies, having the team’s involvement in meeting potential candidates, reference checks, and even up to job offers. It will be insightful for hiring managers, it’s definitely a good read for me! They even provided case studies for each section to prove their points, and at the end of every chapter, they have self-analysis questions for you to reflect on as well.

[Jason Carter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was written by the CEO of Hireology, a company specifically founded to help companies hire better. As such it has helpful advice on several aspects of the hiring process.

The book is broken into four sections:

1) Define the role
2) Source your applicants
3) Select the right person
4) Retain your best

I "read" it in a bit over two hours. I earmarked two sections... On performance reviews and interview questions. I plan to take some of his advice on these two sections, so I got my money's worth. Much of the rest was fluff.

[Alex Oxford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a turnkey, step-by-step, "how to" manual for creating a robus hiring process. We have made a few tweaks to the standard process, but have retained many of the practices set forth by the author. We have hired two candidates using the process described and are absolutely thrilled with them. If you are a hiring manager, CEO, or in HR that is "new"(ish) to hiring, you will want to pick up this primer.

[Tara Scherner de la fuente · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a couple points I'd clarify if I were editing it, but the book makes hiring sound more like company-building than a chore and makes the hiring process as much a part of things as the sales process. Mass me want to work in this sort of culture!

[Marcell Nimführ · Rating 1 out of 5]

My oh my. If you have never heard of: company, recruiting, people management; then you might find a tidbit or two of wisdom in this "book". Here is a tip from the book: "be honest as an employer." There is more where that came from.

[Glenn Schmelzle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hiring takes a lot of work, but yields a big reward

[Gregg R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this after reading Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street. I felt like this was the perfect compliment to Who and I would highly recommend both books for the perfect hiring program.

[Ajay Kishan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book

[Orion · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did you know the cost of a wrong hire could cost you 10x more?
Great walk through for both hiring as well as tips on getting a job.

[Jake Sylvestre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mediocre hiring guide

[Nacho Bassino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story, covering the 5 dysfunctions of a team. It's like going through a list of great examples by following a single well crafted and enticing story.

[Mario Tomic · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read for any entrepreneur or a solopreneur transitioning into hiring and scaling their business.

[Theresa Wade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book on interviewing possible candidates for hiring.

[Nick Coffeen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The hiring landscape is changing, and this book confirms it. Whatever product your business sells or whatever service you provide your customers, the people you have representing your brand directly impacts the level of success you can expect to achieve. Altering the way you approach the acquisition of talent for your team with the practices conveyed in this book will show you how standardized and data-driven results always win.

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

How many times do you go with your gut when hiring? And how many times was your gut wrong? Adam Robinson reminds us how costly a bad hire can be to a company both in terms of lost time and the impact it can have on the rest of the employees and the culture of the organization. The Best Team Wins is a very smart and practical guide to hiring for any company, in any industry, no matter their size. It’s interesting to read while being concise, specific and actionable. The case studies in each section add credibility to the authors assertions and the summaries at the end of each chapter are very helpful. I highly recommend this book to all hiring managers, recruiters and HR managers. It’s far past time that we apply the same data driven rigor to our hiring processes that we have created for every other aspect of our businesses.

[Courtney Moylan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this book for work - will not be rating since I didn’t read it by choice 🤪

[Cassandra Hawkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Best Team Wins, written by Adam Robinson, focuses on how important hiring the right people to work in an organization to the bottom line or profit of the organization. Robinson provides several strategies or steps, which can potentially enhance a company's ability to identify team members, who can actually contribute to an organization.

I did not realize how important hiring the right people can impact an organization. Robinson indicated that about "70 percent of the cost structure of a typical company" revolves around the people that work at the organization. I could not believe how large this percentage was.

In my opinion, this book is ideal for budding entrepreneurs, who are looking to expand their organization. This book provides a lot of information to assist in identifying key people for an organization. Entrepreneurs, who are foreign to the hiring process, could benefit immensely from this book. Additionally, this book is ideal for organizations that are trying to identify how to sustain their competitive advantage.

The strategies within this book are manageable and can be implemented regardless of the size of the organization. In my opinion, this book was not a hard read. The language used within the text was not overly technical.