The Good Ones

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Bruce Weinstein. The Good Ones

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Praise for The Good Ones

“The Good Ones is a must-read for managers and employees alike. In a world that sometimes has a win-at-all-costs attitude, it is good to read about how you can have long-term success by surrounding yourself with people of high character. From now on I will incorporate character questions when conducting interviews and will look at the ten qualities associated with high-character individuals as part of my hiring process.”

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Alan Murray, the editor of Fortune magazine and former president of the Pew Research Center, carefully listens to anything former employers have to say about job applicants. “Sometimes they’ll convey useful information about a candidate’s shortcomings even while soft-pedaling that information,” he told me. What Alan finds surprising is how rarely prospective employers contact him about employees who leave his organization. “I’ve been angst-ridden over what I was going to say when someone called me for a reference, but it’s seldom I get the call,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s laziness or a failure to understand the value of reference checks.” Alan’s experiences may be the fallout from the practice of employers’ giving little meaningful information during reference checks, which discourages prospective employers from contacting references at all.

Jeffrey Hayzlett, host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett on Bloomberg Television, believes strongly in checking references, but only when those references are people he knows. He cites a book that had a big influence on him, his friend Bob Beaudine’s The Power of Who: You Already Know Who You Need to Know. The Wall Street Journal called Bob’s company “the top executive recruiting firm in college athletics,” so Bob knows a thing or two about how to find good employees. Alan Murray, too, has found that having a personal connection with references is a way to get information about job candidates that has played a decisive role in hiring decisions.

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