How the Best Leaders Lead: Proven Secrets to Getting the Most Out of Yourself and Others by Brian Tracy

Author:Brian Tracy [Tracy, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Amacom - A
Published: 2010-02-02T14:00:00+00:00

Practice the Law of Three

This powerful technique can dramatically improve your ability to select the right people for the long term. Follow the law of three. Interview at least three candidates for any position. Interview the candidate that you like the most at least three times. Interview the candidate that you like the most in at least three different locations.

Hiring decisions that you make by intuition can often turn out to be unsuccessful. But when you interview three different candidates for the job, you get a better feeling for which of the candidates would be best. You get a better sense of what is available and exactly what it is you want. If you only speak to one person, your range of possibilities is too limited.

Never offer the person the job at the first interview. If you like him or her, invite him or her back for a second and third interview. Remember, the best the candidate will ever appear will be at the first interview. At the second interview, you will see and experience a different person. At the third interview, the person may be so completely different that you will wonder what you were thinking when you interviewed him or her the first time.

Finally, interview the person in at least three different locations. Interview him once in your office, once down the hall or in a separate room, and perhaps once across the street at a coffee shop. A person who looks good in your office may look average down the hall and completely mediocre when taken out for coffee or lunch. Remember, the slower you go, the better decisions you will make.

The final application of the law of three is to have the candidate interviewed by at least three other potential coworkers. Don’t rely exclusively on your own judgment in hiring someone. A person that you may like initially may turn out to be completely unacceptable when other people have a chance to express their opinions.

In my company, everyone gets a chance to interview a new candidate, and then everyone votes on that candidate before he or she receives a job offer. It is absolutely amazing what the candidate will reveal when he speaks to a potential coworker as opposed to a potential boss.

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