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The Defining Hire
AMAZON BEST-SELLER
The Talent War
The Leadership Decision That Changes Everything
A practical framework for selecting the right leaders before the cost of a wrong hire impacts culture, execution, and results.
About the Book
The Defining Hire is about the most consequential decision leaders make: who gets trusted to lead. Built for CEOs, boards, CHROs, investors, and senior executives, the book provides a practical process for high-stakes leadership selection — defining success, reducing bias, interviewing for patterns, using assessment correctly, and avoiding the costly mistake of choosing the wrong senior leader.
What you’ll learn:
- Define success up front — or you’re searching blind. If you can’t see the target, you can’t hit it. Learn how to define the mission, the environment, the outcomes, and the leader the role actually demands before anyone starts chasing candidates.
- Stop confusing activity with discipline. More résumés, more interviews, and more opinions do not create a better hire. Learn how to run a focused executive search that finds the right leader — not the obvious résumé or the familiar name.
- Stop falling for polish. Executive candidates know how to interview. Learn how to test for patterns, pressure behavior, character, and fit — so charisma, pedigree, and confidence don’t hijack the decision.
- Stop treating “yes” as the finish line. The offer closes the candidate; onboarding launches the leader. Learn how to make the right offer and set the hire up to deliver real impact.
The Book That Changed How Organizations Think About the People They Hire.
An Amazon Best-Seller. Used by executives, HR leaders, and managers in organizations around the world.
About the Book
The #1 secret to a successful business is its people. It’s obvious when you say it out loud — but most organizations don’t actually operate that way.
Co-authored with former US Navy SEAL Mike Sarraille, The Talent War pulls back the curtain on how the world’s highest-performing organizations identify, select, and develop their leaders. Drawing on the principles behind Special Operations talent selection and decades of corporate leadership experience, this book makes the case for a fundamentally different approach to talent — one that prioritizes potential over pedigree.
What you’ll learn:
- The predictive attributes that distinguish high-performers from the rest
- Why A-players find other A-players — and how to build that culture
- How to structure your hiring process to surface the signals that actually matter
- Why most organizations are seduced by the wrong things on a resume — and how to stop
- A new, potential-based method for hiring that builds teams built to last