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Job assignments
• Do a study of successful executives in your organization, and report the findings to top management.
• Do a study of failed executives in your organization, including interviewing people still with the
organization who knew or worked with them, and report the findings to top management.
• Train and work as an assessor in an assessment center.

• Work on a team that’s deciding whom to keep and whom to let go in a layoff, shutdown, delayering, or
merger.

• Build a multi-functional project team to tackle a common business issue or problem.

“If you hire only those people you understand,
the company will never get people better than you are.
Always remember that you often find outstanding people
among those you don’t particularly like.”

Soichiro Honda – Japanese engineer and industrialist

Learning resources
Adler, L. (2007). Hire with your head: Using performance-based hiring to build great teams. Hoboken, NJ:
John Wiley & Sons.
Charan, R., Lorsch, J. W., Khurana, R., Sorcher, M., Brant, J., Bennis, W., & O’Toole, J. (2005). Hire the
right CEO (HBR OnPoint Collection). Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review.
Dimitrius, J., & Mazzarella, M. C. (2008). Reading people: How to understand people and predict their
behavior: Anytime, anyplace. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
Fields, M. R. A. (2001). Indispensable employees: How to hire them, how to keep them. Franklin Lakes,
NJ: Career Press.
Guion, R. M., & Highhouse, S. (2006). Essentials of personnel assessment and selection. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hallenbeck, G. S., Jr., & Eichinger, R. W. (2006). Interviewing right: How science can sharpen your
interviewing accuracy. Minneapolis, MN: Lominger International: A Korn Ferry Company.
Harvard Business Essentials. (2002). Hiring and keeping the best people. Boston, MA: Harvard Business
School Press.
Harvey, M., Novicevic, M. M., & Garrison, G. (2004). Challenges to staffing global virtual teams. Human
Resource Management, 14, 275-294.
Levin, R. A., & Rosse, J. G. (2001). Talent flow: A strategic approach to keeping good employees, helping
them grow, and letting them go. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Michaels, E., Handfield-Jones, H., & Axelrod, B. (2001). The war for talent. Boston, MA: Harvard
Business School Press.

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