Select: Jumpstart the Cycle of Excellence-Encourage Peak Performance by Putting the Right Person in the Right Job
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- Synopsis
- As General Electric CEO Jack Welch said, "Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy." Smart managers know that job fit means paying attention to three things: what a person likes to do most; what he or she does best; and what adds the greatest value to the project or organization. In this chapter, bestselling author ("Driven to Distraction") and practicing psychiatrist Edward Hallowell focuses on "Select," the first of five steps in the Cycle of Excellence. He uses real-life examples to demonstrate the importance of fit-that when there's a mismatch between the employee and the job, everything that follows, no matter how fervent the effort, suffers. He also explains how to recognize a bad fit and what to do to fix it. The chapter offers practical steps you can take today-including the "Hallowell Self-Report Job-Fit" questionnaire-that will help you identify your employees' strengths and interests and match them to the particular challenges of your organization. The chapter concludes with a discussion of "conative style"-defined as an individual's natural, inborn style of solving a problem-and how understanding this characteristic in each of your employees can help you put the right person in the right job. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 2 of "Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People."
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/02/16
- Copyrighted By:
- HBS Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.