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Hire and Keep the Best People
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Hire and Keep the Best People

by Brian Tracy
October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
1h 44m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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2 Think Through the Job

Your mind is incredibly powerful—and never more so than when you focus your mental energies, like a laser beam, on a question or problem for a sustained period of time.

Before you begin your search for new employees, take sufficient time to think through the job carefully. Use the 10/90 Rule. This rule says that the first 10 percent of time that you spend thinking and planning will save you 90 percent of the time and effort required to make the right decision and get the right result in the long run. The 10/90 Rule is an incredible time-saver that requires only patience and discipline to make it work for you.

Think through the exact output responsibilities of the job. Begin by imagining that the job is a pipeline. What ...

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