Hi Reader,

Most managers I know are good leaders. They care about their teams. They take hiring seriously.

Yet, interviewing is one of those skills everyone is expected to have, but almost nobody is ever taught.

So they rely on gut feel, polished stories, and "cultural fit" that feels right in the room but falls apart six months later.

They accept summaries instead of evidence. Impressions instead of behavior. Hope instead of clarity.

The result is predictable.

Wrong hire. Missed targets. A performance conversation nobody wanted to have.

I've spent 20 years trying to fix that. Over 12,000 interviews. More than 1,000 hiring decisions. Across recruiting, executive search, and building my own businesses.

Over that time I kept seeing the same thing. Smart, capable leaders making the same avoidable mistakes. Not because they weren't trying. Because nobody had ever given them a reliable way to learn it.

So I wrote a book sharing what I learned.

It's called Get To The Point: The Interviewer's Playbook

It's not theory. It's the exact questions, follow-ups, and techniques I use to collect real evidence instead of polished stories. It's built around what actually matters in an interview: self-awareness, leadership, ownership, execution, and the tough people decisions that define careers.

The full book isn't published yet. But the first three chapters are done, and I want you to have them before anyone else.

Here's what's inside:

Introduction: Why Great Hiring Is a Leadership Skill. The hiring philosophy that separates great leaders from everyone else, including the three practices strong hirers share and why there is no neutral outcome in a people decision.

Chapter 1: Self-Awareness and Growth. Questions that reveal how candidates learn, handle feedback, adapt under pressure, and grow through failure.

Chapter 2: Leadership and Ownership. How to uncover whether someone steps up without being asked, earns trust in a new team, makes the hard call, and owns being wrong.

Plus the five most common interviewer mistakes, 15 essential follow-up prompts, layering techniques, and bar-raiser filters.

To get it, just reply to this email.

No forms. No landing page. Just hit reply and I'll send the PDF straight back.

Until next time,
Konstanty

P.S. If you've ever left an interview thinking "I liked them" and then spent the next three months managing the consequences, this is for you.