Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They'll Give You Even More, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

5Hiring for Attitude

Leadership IQ’s Hundred Percenter Index Questions

This organization hires people that have the right attitude to be high performers.

This organization hires people that have the right attitude to fit our culture.

Introduction

When most leaders and managers talk about “hiring the right people,” they mean the folks who can do the tasks of the job. But that’s out of step with what the latest research tells us is important to hiring success. For instance, one of our studies tracked 20,000 new hires in a comprehensive range of industries over 18 months. Within that first year and a half on the job, the total failure rate of those new hires (including those who got fired, received poor performance reviews, or were written up) was ...