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From Hire to Inspire: How to Become the Best Boss
A blueprint for becoming the best boss you can be
North Americans work 90,000 hours in their lifetime. Wouldn't they enjoy working in a job they love, with a boss who energizes them? David Lahey's From Hire to Inspire can help make that happen. With advice for all types of companies, From Hire to Inspire is a road map to becoming a better boss -- maybe even the best boss -- and to helping your employees achieve their potential.
Using a new set of behavioral science analytics, Lahey shows you how to determine what types of work different people will find fulfilling. When leaders use these principles to put the right people in the right positions at the right time, employees spend less energy adapting, their engagement levels improve, and they are less absent at work, which results in an increase in productivity and lower accident levels.
Set your employees up for success in both work and life by learning how to adapt to a changing workplace, the science of decision making, how to coax the most from a millennial workforce, the influence social media has on a culture, how to maintain a respectful environment where leaders can flourish, and more.
When your staff excels and grows, your company grows too.
North Americans work 90,000 hours in their lifetime. Wouldn't they enjoy working in a job they love, with a boss who energizes them? David Lahey's From Hire to Inspire can help make that happen. With advice for all types of companies, From Hire to Inspire is a road map to becoming a better boss -- maybe even the best boss -- and to helping your employees achieve their potential.
Using a new set of behavioral science analytics, Lahey shows you how to determine what types of work different people will find fulfilling. When leaders use these principles to put the right people in the right positions at the right time, employees spend less energy adapting, their engagement levels improve, and they are less absent at work, which results in an increase in productivity and lower accident levels.
Set your employees up for success in both work and life by learning how to adapt to a changing workplace, the science of decision making, how to coax the most from a millennial workforce, the influence social media has on a culture, how to maintain a respectful environment where leaders can flourish, and more.
When your staff excels and grows, your company grows too.
180 pages, Hardcover
Published March 10, 2020
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February 24, 2020
I don’t normally read business books, but you don’t need an MBA to enjoy David Lahey’s From Hire to Inspire How to Become the Best Boss. David Lahey uses an anecdotal tone that is effective in drawing the reader in and helps translate the central concept of the book. This central concept is the Predictive Index’s use of talent optimization, and -according to Lahey- its universal applicability throughout business and business culture. Lahey’s forthcoming enough with his own professional work experience too, and this allows for the book to come off as relatable even if sometimes this falls a little short. That said, there’s enough here that you could apply to real world scenarios to probably make it a worthwhile read for any employer or employee.
As mentioned, the practice of talent optimization is featured prominently throughout the book, and this helps rationalize Lahey’s intent for improvement in your business. Talent optimization, according to Lahey, is a four-part discipline that consists of a diagnoses of the business strategy, designation of job roles, acquisition of talent (hire), and the cultivation of success (inspire). The premise is a compelling one, but part of the problem is that it’s never quite able to get past the book’s anecdotal style. As previously stated, Lahey doesn’t expect the reader to have a strong grasp of business (I.E. math) to be able to read this book, but that kind of makes you wish it had. Sometimes the claims can seem oversimplified and, for anyone with an analytical-quantitative background, it may make you wish that a more objective approach had been applied, in some cases at least.
For instance, Lahey draws (on several occasions) from his experience working at Microsoft in the 90’s. And in one case in particular he compares Microsoft’s hiring and talent optimization practices to Google’s present-day practices. This isn’t salient for a couple of reasons because, for one thing, there is no acknowledgement of the gap in time between when both of these companies are performing their hiring functions and, for another, it doesn’t differentiate between the two companies’ functions regarding the products they create and the businesses they serve. And this is where the book kind of comes apart because, when you are trying to apply an introspective model to improve hiring practices, but don’t acknowledge the overall effect time has on employment standards, Lahey is overlooking the exponential rate of change software and tech companies experience. What’s most glaring about it, however, is that on more than one occasion Lahey does acknowledge the changes time has on employment and job placement. Overall, it feels like Lahey is being more selective than he should be when more should have been done to find proper examples of the hiring practices from the past, as well as today.
At the end of the day, I found myself enjoying smaller portions of the book. Like when Lahey makes an analogy between the importance of finding a job you like, and the practice of strapping on your own emergency oxygen mask before helping anyone else. This, along the use of yoga breaths in the workplace, are passages that resonate well and seem like practices that any business could benefit from. Ultimately though, for some reason, the book generalizes wildly and ends up losing some of its inspiration. So if you are in the market for a book that can give you a few good ideas about your career, but don’t expect much technical jargon, at all, then From Hire to Inspire How to Become the Best Boss could be a worthy addition to your nightstand.
As mentioned, the practice of talent optimization is featured prominently throughout the book, and this helps rationalize Lahey’s intent for improvement in your business. Talent optimization, according to Lahey, is a four-part discipline that consists of a diagnoses of the business strategy, designation of job roles, acquisition of talent (hire), and the cultivation of success (inspire). The premise is a compelling one, but part of the problem is that it’s never quite able to get past the book’s anecdotal style. As previously stated, Lahey doesn’t expect the reader to have a strong grasp of business (I.E. math) to be able to read this book, but that kind of makes you wish it had. Sometimes the claims can seem oversimplified and, for anyone with an analytical-quantitative background, it may make you wish that a more objective approach had been applied, in some cases at least.
For instance, Lahey draws (on several occasions) from his experience working at Microsoft in the 90’s. And in one case in particular he compares Microsoft’s hiring and talent optimization practices to Google’s present-day practices. This isn’t salient for a couple of reasons because, for one thing, there is no acknowledgement of the gap in time between when both of these companies are performing their hiring functions and, for another, it doesn’t differentiate between the two companies’ functions regarding the products they create and the businesses they serve. And this is where the book kind of comes apart because, when you are trying to apply an introspective model to improve hiring practices, but don’t acknowledge the overall effect time has on employment standards, Lahey is overlooking the exponential rate of change software and tech companies experience. What’s most glaring about it, however, is that on more than one occasion Lahey does acknowledge the changes time has on employment and job placement. Overall, it feels like Lahey is being more selective than he should be when more should have been done to find proper examples of the hiring practices from the past, as well as today.
At the end of the day, I found myself enjoying smaller portions of the book. Like when Lahey makes an analogy between the importance of finding a job you like, and the practice of strapping on your own emergency oxygen mask before helping anyone else. This, along the use of yoga breaths in the workplace, are passages that resonate well and seem like practices that any business could benefit from. Ultimately though, for some reason, the book generalizes wildly and ends up losing some of its inspiration. So if you are in the market for a book that can give you a few good ideas about your career, but don’t expect much technical jargon, at all, then From Hire to Inspire How to Become the Best Boss could be a worthy addition to your nightstand.
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March 6, 2024
It was an interesting book at the beginning, but then it became a bit patronizing and a sales pitch for the author's website. This could have been an article on a magazine.
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