I work for a small company (12 employees) that has been adopting the Rockefeller Habits as well as Topgrading over the last nine months. Our CEO has given the task of managing our Topgrading initiatives to our Operations Manager and does not actively participate in our weekly training and discussion sessions.

My question is in your opinion, will we be able to fully achieve Topgrading results, build a virtual bench, and continue to Topgrade within our organization without our CEO leading the program?

I know…definitely agree. I know my list sounds hard - but if you look hard enough, it’s not that hard to find the right fits.

That’s what I’m learning.

The key is that you can’t start looking WHEN you need them, you have to ALWAYS be looking.

Mystery CEO

I think the ability to fly, no body odor, and will never grow old are equally as important, if not more important than those traits you’ve listed.

Seriously Mystery CEO, it seems your posts mirror everything I’m doing. I read a great book recently, Tom Gegax’s “big book of small business”, about his building and sale of the tires plus business.

Gegax advocates similar interviewing rules. If you shoot from the hip or gut in hiring, and save time (and money) by making a quick decision, more often than not it will just bite you down the road.

The amount of money wasted in hiring, training, and the amount of money they’ll lose you in lost productivity is just astronomical.

This has been one of the bigger and harder things I’ve had to learn recently.

That is STRANGE.

Thanks for the catch, I deleted the first one.