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	<description>How to interview, hire, and coach high performance teams</description>
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		<title>Topgrading Tips (Vol 5, No. 11) &#8220;Good Soldiers&#8221; are Dead Soldiers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another title of this article could be:  How to Say No to a Boss Who Has Very Outrageous Expectations
Of the 6,500 executives I’ve interviewed, asking 16 basic questions about every full-time job, fully one-third have failed in a job because they couldn’t say no to a demanding boss.
Meet Hal, candidate for Division General Manager, 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topgrading Tips (Vol 5, No. 10) How to Topgrade Globally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does Topgrading “translate” well into other cultures?  You bet!  During the past 6 months I’ve spent most of my professional time working with global rollouts of companies such as Barclays, DTZ (global commercial real estate management), Argo (insurance), and several other companies in Russia, Europe, South America, and Asia.  Following are key conclusions, insights, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smarttopgrading.com/blog/index.php/topgrading-tips-vol-5-no-10-how-to-topgrade-globally/2010/07/13/</link>
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		<title>Topgrading Interview Tip - Stick to the Script!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had the chance to sit with a lot of new Topgrading interviewers over the past several months and there is one piece of advice that was given to almost all of them.  (&#8230;and it didn&#8217;t matter if it was their first or 20th interview!)
The advice is to stick to the script in the Topgrading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smarttopgrading.com/blog/index.php/topgrading-interview-tip-stick-to-the-script/2010/07/07/</link>
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		<title>Topgrading Tips (Vol. 5, No. 9) Topgrading 101:  Topgrading Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This short article spells out the quick and dirty “Cliff Notes” version of Topgrading methods that are truly best practices NOT just for hiring but for auditing your talent and for promoting people with great success.
We’ll start with Topgrading hiring: the 1 – 2 – 3 punch, the 3 most important practices any manager can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smarttopgrading.com/blog/index.php/topgrading-tips-vol-5-no-9-topgrading-101-topgrading-basics/2010/06/30/</link>
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		<title>Employee Referral Programs Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Wall Street Journal article described several companies&#8217; employee referral programs and highlighted two especially effective programs at WhitePages, Inc. and Concur Technologies.  Since January, WhitePages has hired 27 people, 9 of which have come from referrals.  Forty-eight percent of Concur Technologies 150 hires this year have come from referrals.
Step 3 in Topgrading hiring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smarttopgrading.com/blog/index.php/employee-referral-programs-work/2010/06/15/</link>
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