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Topgrading

How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People

by Bradford D. Smart · Recommended by 2 people on 2 podcasts

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We learned this from a book called Who, which was the sequel to the book called Topgrading, and it's about basically how to hire.
Graham Weaver · My First Million · Apr 2026 Listen at 32:04

Why people recommend it

Topgrading by Bradford D. Smart is a prominent corporate hiring guide focused on structured methodologies designed to help organizations identify, evaluate, and recruit top-tier talent. Mike Salguero discussed the book on Build with Leila Hormozi, explaining how utilizing the framework's specific strategies, particularly the implied threat of rigorous reference checks, proved highly effective at prompting job candidates to reveal the unfiltered truth about their backgrounds and resumes. Furthermore, Graham Weaver mentioned the volume on My First Million while discussing recruitment pipelines, identifying it as the direct intellectual predecessor to the popular hiring book Who. Weaver noted that both texts share a fundamental focus on optimizing the hiring process to secure high-performing personnel for growing businesses. Together, these podcast appearances emphasize the manual's enduring utility for founders and executives seeking to overhaul their recruitment procedures, eliminate hiring mistakes, and build exceptionally strong, reliable teams through systematic evaluation and rigorous candidate vetting.

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Mike Salguero there's a book called top grading which is all about like finding the best people uh they talked and this h… 1
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“there's a book called top grading which is all about like finding the best people uh they talked and this has worked really well too they talk about um the threat of reference check”
Graham Weaver We learned this from a book called Who, which was the sequel to the book called Topgrading, and it's about… 1
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“We learned this from a book called Who, which was the sequel to the book called Topgrading, and it's about basically how to hire.”

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