Fraser Hill

The CEO's Greatest Asset Fraser Hill

CEOs and leadership teams speak about how people are their greatest asset. One would think that in pursuit of their prized assets, there would be a reliable structured way to make informed decisions about who to hire. Existing interview and candidate selection frameworks in Fortune 500 companies are out of date and not built for optimal diversity and inclusion hiring. From outdated, unreliable competency question frameworks to psychometric tests that have no scientific validity, it is little wonder that it's often left to guesswork and gut feel to make such important hiring decisions. This book aims to do three things. Firstly, review what over 100 years of behavioral science has taught us about what we should be looking out for in hiring leaders and managers. Secondly, it aims to dissect what is wrong with how we currently approach executive hiring. Finally, it proposes an entirely new interview and selection framework based on four new dimensions of leadership and twelve related traits. The goal is to replace outdated competency interviews and guesswork, or at the very least, to encourage readers to start questioning everything about how they currently approach leadership and management talent acquisition. Written by Fraser Hill who has spent over twenty years living and working all over the world, from Asia to Eastern Europe, the UK, Canada and now the USA, advising and hiring leadership teams in Fortune 500's and high growth companies.