(Great) Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success

(great) EMPLOYEES ONLY
Contents
Preface
PART I 90-10-0: The Formula for Leadership Success
	Number 1 Hiring Is Motivation, or It’s Less Work to Get 100 Percent Improvement than 10 Percent Improvement
		The Tale of Two Bosses
	Number 2 You Can Change People, or You Can Change People
	Number 3 The First Step to Finding Star Employees Is Believing That They Exist, or How to Make the Playing Field as Un-Level as Possible
	Number 4 You Can Lead an Employee to Water, but If You Find One Who Knows a Better Path to the Water, Shut Up and Get a Bucket
PART II From Employees to Allies
	Number 5 Those Aren’t Employees (or Friends, Enemies, Family, or Students)—Those Are Allies
	Number 6 Those Aren’t Former Employees—Those Are Graduates
	Number 7 You Never Get Rid of Anyone
	Number 8 It’s Not Closure That’s Needed—It’s Aperture
	Number 9 How Two Allies (a Great Employee and a Gifted Boss) Find Each Other
	Number 10 Assume the Best, Part I: The Art of Being a True Ally
	Number 11 Assume That the Best Employees ALWAYS KNOW
	Number 12 What’s a Great Employee Worth?
PART III The Graceful Art of De-Hiring
	Number 13 Replacing People Is so Hard for Most Bosses That They Don’t Do Enough of It
	Number 14 You Are Becoming Your Coworkers
	Number 15 A Meeting Moves at the Pace of the Slowest Mind in the Room
	Number 16 Firing Takes Guts—De-Hiring Requires Heart
	Number 17 Assume the Best, Part II: The Genius Lurking Inside
	Number 18 The My-Situation-Is-Different Myth: De-Hiring Works in Any Type of Business or Industry, Even Government
	Number 19 Intelligent Failing
	Number 20 You Can’t Buy Love from Fired Employees
	Number 21 From Set-Up-to-Fail to Set-Up-to-Be-a-Hero
	Number 22 You Aren’t Just Changing Employees—You’re Changing Lives
	Number 23 Lessons from a Master of the Art of De-Hiring
		I. The Wisdom of Honest Assessment
		II. The Quantifiable Improvement Period
		III. The Three Outcomes
			No Improvement
			The Turnaround Succeeds
			The Person Self-Selects out of the Job
PART IV Inspiring, Effortless Leadership (The First Step in Hiring Great Employees)
	Number 24 You Can Take Credit, but You Can’t Give It Away
	Number 25 Effortless Leadership, Part I: No One Wants to Be Managed, so Stop Doing It
	Number 26 Effortless Leadership, Part II: Management by Asking Questions
	Number 27 Effortless Leadership, Part III: The One Who Manages Least, Manages Best
		The Hippie’s Guide to Business
		The Parting Shot versus the Parting Gift
	Number 28 Effortless Leadership, Part IV: Winning versus Working
	Number 29 Guess What Kind of Employee Is Attracted to Average Pay?
	Number 30 Never Bet on Employees Who Don’t Want to Bet on Themselves
	Number 31 What’s the Score? or How to Go from Shooting Around to Playing to Win
	Number 32 You Get What You Pay For: What Employees Believe They Get Paid For, Not What You Thought You Were Paying For
	Number 33 When the Inspired Culture Takes over the Hiring and De-Hiring
PART V Hiring Is What You Do So You Don’t Have to Manage (and It’s What You Do with Some of the Time You Save by Not Having to Manage)
	Number 34 Hiring Is More Important than Sales
	Number 35 The Hiring Pipeline: The Best Selection Process in the World Is Only Capable of Picking the Best Person in the Competition
	Number 36 Contrarian Hiring, Part I: The Underground Talent Market
	Number 37 If You’re Feeling Insulted Right about Now
	Number 38 Contrarian Hiring, Part II: Finding Unusual People in the Usual Places
	Number 39 Contrarian Hiring, Part III: The Action Interview
	Number 40 Contrarian Hiring, Part IV: It’s Not Just a Job—It’s a Break
	Number 41 Contrarian Hiring, Part V: Hunting for New Talent Pools and/or Doing Pool Construction
	Number 42 Being Worthy of the Best Talent: In the Long Run, You Get the Employees You Deserve
	Number 43 If You Want Great Performances, You Have to Provide a Great Audience
	Number 44 If You Don’t Have a Great Story, You Don’t Have Great Employees or a WOMPing Good Place to Work
		Olympics Model
		Entrepreneurial Model
		Disney Model
PART VI Understanding Bureaucrats, Upper Management, and Other Distractions
	Number 45 The Unspoken Assumption of Bad Management and Bad Marketing
	Number 46 The Team Makes the Stars While the Stars Make the Team
	Number 47 Your Work Is Only Part of Your Job
	Number 48 Leading via Happiness
Final Thoughts
Acknowledgments and Sources
About the Author
EULA