5 Steps to Creating a 21st Century Organization:

Step 5: Create a New Set of Rules for Talent Recruitment

 

Netflix (The online streaming media company a.k.a. TV on the go), is thumbing their nose up at tradition Human Resource methodologies by setting the bar higher; they expect people to be fully formed adults. 

Their controversial hiring and management practices have made the cover story in the Harvard Business Review. Check It Out: Netflix--A Great Place to Work

One of their tactics is to put their money into hiring winners. Netflix discovered that two mediocre employees could be replaced with one A-Player.

For those of you who grew up believing there are no winners and no losers, welcome to the real world. "Sprinkles are for winners."

What do A-Players expect from other A-Players? Intensity in all they do.  

Yes you have to pay that person a bit more, but you get one self-starter instead of having to pay two for the same output.

Now there's a caveat to hiring a company full of A-Players; at some point, they will want to kill each other. Not literally, but figuratively.

So that means you need a new way of managing people's behavior and workflow.

Which I will explore in the next part of this series.

Create your own rules for hiring. Rules that fit YOUR workforce culture.

See you next time...

Brad

Brad Szollose
Global Management & Leadership Development Consultant

Author  •  Workshop Facilitator  •  Executive Coach  •  Keynote Speaker