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Howard Lewinter, writing for Small Business Trends, puts Hiring for Attitude first
I had a great time last summer talking about Hiring for Attitude with Howard Lewinter on his BlogTalkRadio show, Talk Business with Howard. I also learned that Howard is a guy who reads a lot of books. So I’m especially honored that Hiring for Attitude leads the pack on his recently released list of ”10 Best Strategy Books to Beat the Competition” that shows readers how to survive and profit in today’s competitive business environment.
As Howard says in his review of the book, “Don’t think for a minute that because the unemployment rate remains high in the United States it’s easy to find the right employees. It isn’t.” When Leadership IQ asked executives from over 1000 companies how successful they were in sourcing the best talent from executive, professional, technical and unskilled categories, the overall response was dismal. In all four categories, fewer than 10% of the companies said they are doing an excellent job at sourcing the best talent, while 65% said they’re doing an average or below average job.
But as bad as the unemployment news is, there is hiring taking place out there. And the message just keeps getting stronger that the criteria that companies are looking for in new hires is changing. It’s all about attitude.
Mark Murphy is Founder & CEO of Leadership IQ, a top-rated research and consulting firm that delivers employee engagement and leadership development to the world’s most successful organizations and their leaders.
Mark leads one of the world’s largest leadership and goal-setting studies, and his work has appeared in such publications as the Wall St. Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report and the Washington Post. Mark has also been a featured guest on programs including CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, Fox Business News and NPR.
Mark’s training and surveys have yielded remarkable results for organizations such as Harvard Business School, Aflac, Charles Schwab, Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, MD Anderson Cancer Center, FirstEnergy, Volkswagen and Johns Hopkins.
Mark’s best-selling books are backed by rigorous research and offer leaders clear and actionable solutions. His most recent book, Hiring for Attitude, was featured in Fast Company, The Wall St Journal, and chosen as a top business book by CNBC. Some of his other titles include the international bestseller, Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They’ll Give You Even More, and HARD Goals: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
As a former turnaround specialist, Mark’s work has revolutionized how we view the link between leadership and bottom-line results. He was awarded the prestigious Healthcare Financial Management Association’s “Helen Yerger Award for Best Research” for being the first person to discover the link between layoff strategies and patient mortality rates. For his work in saving financially-distressed hospitals, he was a three-time nominee for Modern Healthcare’s “Most Powerful People in Healthcare Award,” joining a list of 300 luminaries including Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush. Some of his other groundbreaking research studies include “Are SMART Goals Dumb?,” “Why CEO's Get Fired,” “Why New Hires Fail” and “Don’t Expect Layoff Survivors to Be Grateful.”
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