Something to Prove
The 80/20 Way to Find, Build, and Keep the People Who Grow a BusinessBy Bill CanadyRecorded TrackLength6h 23m
About this audiobook
Most companies hire for pedigree. The brand-name employer, the title, the résumé that answers every question before anyone asks one. Then the people who looked best on paper leave for a bigger title, and the people who carry the business turn out to be the ones nobody would have picked.
Something to Prove is the 80/20 way to find, build and keep the people who grow a business. Hunger beats pedigree, and this book shows a CEO how to hire for it. Read a candidate's record for need, preparation and grind. Name the few critical seats that carry the results, and recruit for them yourself, ten calls a week. Run a proof interview with a work sample and one scorecard. Give every new hire a written first hundred days, pay everyone on the number, and hold one talent review a year that puts a name behind every critical seat.
This audiobook is narrated using a digitally recreated version of Bill Canady’s voice.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length6 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Something to Prove
2Dedication
3How to Read This Book
4A Note on Names and Numbers
5Part One: Hunger Beats Pedigree
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6Chapter One: The Favor Hire
7Chapter Two: Something to Prove
8Chapter Three: Where the Line Is
9Part Two: Find Them
10Chapter Four: The CEO Recruits
11Chapter Five: Make the Call
12Chapter Six: The Proof Interview
13Part Three: Build Them
14Chapter Seven: One Model
15Chapter Eight: The First Hundred Days
16Chapter Nine: Feed the Hunger
17Chapter Ten: Teach It and Live It
18Chapter Eleven: Pay on the Number
19Part Four: Keep Them, or Let Them Go
20Chapter Twelve: When the Hunger Fades
21Chapter Thirteen: Run the Team on Eighty-Twenty
22Chapter Fourteen: The Thousand-Day Bench
23The Short Field Guide
24The Instruments
25Acknowledgments
26About the Author
27Keep Going
28This has been Something to Prove
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