Bestselling Books

The Defining Hire

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:

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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