April 2010
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240 pages
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How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team - Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department
by Eric Herrenkohl
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Conclusion
[1] "The Search for Talent," The Economist, October 7, 2006, 22.
[2] William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson, Constitution of Matter. Vol. 1 of Popular Lectures and Addresses (London: Richard Clay and Sons, 1891), 80.
[3] Michael Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited (New York: HarperCollins, 1986), 105.
[4] "401 Players Taken before Pujols in '99," San Diego Union Tribune, October 26, 2004.
[5] "Another Difficulty for a Microsoft-Yahoo Marriage: Recruiting," New York Times, February 4, 2008.
[6] Public Broadcasting System, American Experience: The Kennedys, air date May 2009.
[7] Robert Caro, Master of the Senate (New York: Random House, 2002), 106.
[8] U.S. Census Bureau News Press Release, February 25, 2009, "As Baby Boomers Age, Fewer Families Have Children Under 18 at Home." www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/families _house holds/013378.html
[9] Kate Lorenz, "Do Pretty People Earn More?" CNN.com, July 8, 2005.
[10] Bradford D. Smart, Topgrading (New York: Penguin Group, 2005), 325.
[11] Michael Gerber, The E-Myth (New York: HarperCollins, 1986), 100.
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