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“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.”

—Larry Bossidy, author of Execution

You’ve narrowed down your candidate database, created a short-list, interviewed the most promising prospects, invited them back for follow-up meetings, discussed all the possibilities with your team, decided on an employee, and checked his or her references.

Now, it’s time to make the offer and welcome your new team member. The conversations you have during the hiring period and decisions you subsequently make set in motion a cycle of goal setting and performance management that will help keep your new employee motivated and growing and ...

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