Randy Street: Pioneer of the Topgrading Hiring Method & Co-Author of “Who: The A-Method for Hiring”

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Today’s episode is all about Hiring, and we’ve managed to secure one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject.

Randy Street is the Vice Chairman of ⁠ghSMART⁠, a global consulting firm that helps CEOs, boards, and investors build valuable companies specifically through hiring and developing world class leadership teams. Alonside ghSMART’s chairman and founder, Geoff Smart, Randy also co-authored ⁠Who: The A Method for Hiring⁠, a book that I view as being required reading for all entrepreneurs and CEOs running SMBs. The very specific hiring method that they detail within this book ("Topgrading") changed the way that I made all of my hires across my entire company.

In our discussion today, we discuss how to evaluate people & teams that you haven’t personally hired, post-hire considerations, lessons from 30+ years of working with CEOs and management teams, compensation, and how to identify and address conflicts within leadership teams.