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

My guest is Randy Street. Randy is Vice Chairman of ghSMART, which is a global consulting firm that helps CEOs, boards, and investors build valuable companies specifically through hiring and developing world class leadership teams. During Randy's tenure, ghSMART has grown tenfold, and has been ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Best Consulting Firms from 2017-2020.

Randy first came on my radar when I read the book that he wrote in collaboration with ghSMART’s chairman and founder, Geoff Smart, called Who: The A Method for Hiring. I profile this book on my website as being absolutely required reading for all entrepreneurs and CEOs running SMBs. The very specific hiring method that they detail within this book changed the way that I made all of my hires across my entire company.

The book quickly become a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best seller, and has earned acclaim from countless other publications. Randy also co-authored another Wall Street Journal bestseller, called Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success.

In our discussion today, we barely touch on Randy’s book because, candidly, I’d encourage you to simply buy it an read it for yourself. In today’s episode, I try to dig one level deeper with Randy and 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.

Please enjoy!

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