Who: The A Method for Hiring
by Geoff Smart
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on My First Million.
The general take
Graham Weaver endorses the Who hiring method from the book, describing how they use its three-hour interview approach to thoroughly walk through a candidate's entire background from high school onward. He presents it as a practical system they've actually implemented at his company. There's no pushback mentioned, just a straightforward endorsement of the methodology.
About
In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate.
Who said what
Graham Weaver👍 Recommends
…hiring methodology and interviewing techniques for identifying leaders
“We learned this from a book called who, which was the sequel to the book called top grading. And it's about basically how to hire. And so we do like a three hour interview and you start with the person in literally like in high school and you go through yesterday and you're just walking through their background.”
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