Hire Power Radio is created for entrepreneurs, founders, and business leaders to provide experiential learning & the tools to win-win the strongest people. We share solutions from high performing leaders who have figured out. We challenge the conventional thinking of how you may be approaching hiring for your company ...And we challenge you to empower your team to deliver structured, unbiased, and evidence based interview practices that attract the high performers that will fuel your business…
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Greg Cleary is a business coaching expert with over 20 years of experience helping leadership teams achieve their goals. As the founder of Pinnacle Business Guides, a former Certified Scaling Up Coach, and a record-setting Certified EOS Implementer who has worked with over 500 companies. Greg knows exactly what it takes to build elite teams! His mission is simple: to help his clients summit their…
Ghost Jobs Aren’t the Problem: Beat Auto-Apply Bots by Creating Your Own Referral Rick Girard argues that the silence after hundreds of LinkedIn Easy Apply submissions isn’t mainly caused by “ghost jobs,” but by overwhelming hiring noise from auto-apply bots, keyword gaming, and fake candidates that clog ATS systems and bury real applicants. He challenges the “badge of honor” mindset around high…
A CEO I work with called me in June and said, “Rick, we’ve hit $1M and we’re stuck. “If I could just hire three more ‘me’s,’ we’d be fine.” I had to tell him the hard truth: “You don’t need more of you. You need the people you’re missing—those who augment your weaknesses." He was also in a mad hurry to delegate recruiting to someone else on his team. But he needed to take ownership We focused on…
I was having lunch with a fellow CEO recently, and he looked completely wiped out. He told me he was stuck in this exhausting cycle—constantly trying to empower his leaders to own their roles, only to have to step back in and make the decisions himself. He said, “Rick, I feel like I’m constantly telling my people to take the wheel, to be accountable, but the minute things get tough, they throw the…
In this episode of Higher Power Radio, Rick Girard sits down with Zac Gregg of Vital Design to tackle a problem that quietly drains momentum inside growing companies: hiring and placement misfires. When leaders feel stuck, burnt out, and buried under endless “fix-it” processes, the real culprit often isn’t culture, systems, or motivation—it’s the wrong people in the wrong seats (or the right…
Revenue was up. Headcount doubled fast. But inside the business? People were quitting, managers were snapping, and the culture started sliding into this quiet resentment. The founder said, “I don’t get it… I’m paying them. What else do they want?” Huge red flag! When people don’t feel respected, seen, or safe to speak up, they don’t just disengage. They start protecting themselves. And that’s when…
In this episode of the Hire Power Radio Show, host Rick Girard talks with James Swanson, business disruptor, lifelong punk rocker, and author of 'Super Stoked.' James shares his journey of building a multi-million dollar Las Vegas printing empire by ignoring industry labels and focusing on authentic relationships. From overcoming initial challenges to innovative hiring practices and effective team…
AI has turned the hiring funnel into a keyword carnival: unqualified applicants can “win” resume filters in seconds, while the high performers you actually want don’t bother applying. Rick Girard opens with a true story about a CRO who hired a bartender into a sales role—without a resume—because the job post spoke directly to her, and her outreach proved she was real (and driven). Four months…
Two months before the holidays, Nadia—Integrator at a 120-person EOS-run logistics company—finally terminated a manager who was crushing morale and missing targets. The manager’s response (“I’ve spoken to an attorney about retaliation.”) exposed what leadership missed: a recent workers’ comp claim, intermittent leave, and overtime complaints—plus almost no documentation. The outcome was…
In this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show, host Rick Girard dives into the complexities and challenges of logistics operations with Bill Drummer, CEO of GPA Logistics. Discover how Sarah's initial success with Walmart turned into a compliance nightmare and how leveraging technology, especially AI, and strong leadership can transform chaos into accuracy. Bill shares the importance of having…