The A Method for hiring
Smart and Street's four steps are scorecard, source, select, and sell. The sequence replaces gut-feel interviewing with a structured process aimed at reliably hiring high performers.
Who
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Scorecard-defined roles
Before interviewing, define the role's mission, measurable outcomes, and required competencies. Candidates are then judged against those specifics rather than vague impressions.
The topgrading interview
A chronological walk through a candidate's entire career probes highs, lows, and reasons for each departure. This pattern-focused history predicts performance better than hypothetical situational questions.
Question-word scaffolding for infants
A single interrogative ('who') repeats across pages to pair a prompt with an image, training the earliest form of labelling. The fixed frame lets a pre-verbal child anticipate the pattern.
Board format as durable tactile object
Thick laminated pages survive chewing and grabbing, making the book a physical toy as much as a text. The medium is chosen for a reader who explores by mouth and hand.
Repetition as comfort not tedium
For an infant, sameness across a book is reassuring, not boring; recognition of the recurring page is itself the reward. Adult standards of novelty do not apply.
Shared reading as bonding ritual
The book's real function is the lap-time interaction between caregiver and child, using the pages as a prompt for talk. Content is minimal because the relationship carries the value.
Specific case not verifiable from sources
I don't have reliable knowledge of the actual pages, characters, or scenes in Ariel Silverstein and Jaye Garnett's 'Who' (Cottage Door Press), so I can't name who, where, or what happens without inventing it. This unit needs to be filled in from the book itself: the specific figures pictured on each 'who' page and any closing reveal or payoff.