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Right Seats, Right People: A Leader's Guide to Hiring and Developing Top Performers
Stop hiring with your gut. Start hiring with your head.
I believe that you will find this a valuable, nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts how-to guide that is also an exciting power-pack book. I am going to deal you some ideas that will be new to you and some ideas to make you think differently. I’m here to rattle your cage a little bit. As you delve into these pages, I suggest you refrain from dwelling on anything you decide you have been doing wrong. Instead, just relax and let yourself grasp and appreciate that there is a way of doing it better that isn’t complicated at all. Do it right and get the right people to fill those empty seats, employees who are current or potential A-players with measurable attributes and an understanding of how to succeed in the first 90 and 365 days. My aim is to deliver what you need to put people in the right seats facing in the right direction, not in a static way but in a “you are free to move around the cabin” way.
When you finish this book, you will know how to win somebody over to your team and bring them on your journey for—as Jim Collins put it so perfectly in his book Good to Great —however long they stay on the bus. Do I trust our way? We trust it enough to be different by We are the only company of our type in the world to guarantee 100 percent performance of the people we recommend you hire. And we guarantee that not for a week or a month, but for 365 days. We know it works. Very few people are going to join your company and stay for twenty years, but they will choose to make you part of their journey, just as you choose them to be a part of your organization’s journey.
I believe that you will find this a valuable, nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts how-to guide that is also an exciting power-pack book. I am going to deal you some ideas that will be new to you and some ideas to make you think differently. I’m here to rattle your cage a little bit. As you delve into these pages, I suggest you refrain from dwelling on anything you decide you have been doing wrong. Instead, just relax and let yourself grasp and appreciate that there is a way of doing it better that isn’t complicated at all. Do it right and get the right people to fill those empty seats, employees who are current or potential A-players with measurable attributes and an understanding of how to succeed in the first 90 and 365 days. My aim is to deliver what you need to put people in the right seats facing in the right direction, not in a static way but in a “you are free to move around the cabin” way.
When you finish this book, you will know how to win somebody over to your team and bring them on your journey for—as Jim Collins put it so perfectly in his book Good to Great —however long they stay on the bus. Do I trust our way? We trust it enough to be different by We are the only company of our type in the world to guarantee 100 percent performance of the people we recommend you hire. And we guarantee that not for a week or a month, but for 365 days. We know it works. Very few people are going to join your company and stay for twenty years, but they will choose to make you part of their journey, just as you choose them to be a part of your organization’s journey.
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186 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2022
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About the author
Jonathan Reynolds
104 books62 followersOriginaire de Bromptonville, en Estrie, Jonathan Reynolds publie des histoires de peur pour les adultes et les enfants depuis 2002. Ses romans sont parus chez divers éditeurs et ses nouvelles hantent les revues et fanzines spécialisés ainsi que de nombreux collectifs. Son livre La Légende de McNeil a remporté en 2014 le Prix Aurora/Boréal. Son roman fantastique Abîmes et son omnibus Cendres d’Innstown se sont également mérité cet honneur en 2021 et 2023. En 2001, il a co-fondé les éditions Les Six Brumes où il occupe toujours le rôle de co-éditeur. Il a travaillé plusieurs années comme coordonnateur de la revue Solaris, dans laquelle il a publié des critiques et plusieurs nouvelles. Sa nouvelle « Petite Poule rousse » a été adaptée en court-métrage, réalisé par Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli (Productions Les Montagnes hallucinées).
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October 22, 2022
Right Seats Right People.
This book was an easy read, filled with so many nuggets to build top performers in your company. I believe that many of the tasks to take in hiring process can also be used when developing a team of volunteers for a nonprofit.
I love the idea of having a playbook. I have actually been working on this for each of our programs and will be implementing many of the ideas from this book, when completing our playbooks for each program.
This book was an easy read, filled with so many nuggets to build top performers in your company. I believe that many of the tasks to take in hiring process can also be used when developing a team of volunteers for a nonprofit.
I love the idea of having a playbook. I have actually been working on this for each of our programs and will be implementing many of the ideas from this book, when completing our playbooks for each program.
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June 27, 2025Contains several helpful tools and an overall good perspective on hiring. A few of my personal questions (that prompted me to pick up the book) were left unresolved, but in general there are some good takeaways.
December 31, 2022
A great how-to guide for hiring. I love the approach to consider the whole person (head heart and briefcase) since we aren’t hiring just a resume.
February 28, 2023
Starts off strong - I would like to see more output based measurements as examples in the later chapters
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