Hiring and Retaining Top Talent Blog

Business guru Peter Drucker has said, “Of all the decisions an executive makes, none are as important as the decision about people because they ultimately determine the performance capacity of the organization.” Warren Bennis, professor of business at the University of Southern California and author of Managing the Dream, calls the search for Top Talent […]

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In our experience, hiring mistakes are not caused by willful ignorance or negligence. Most often, new executive failure has several interrelated causes.
Inadequate preparation. Rarely had the hiring companies outlined a detailed, measurable definition of “success” that could be used to source, evaluate, and select candidates. Instead, they relied on outdated or insufficient job specs, focused around […]

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56% of hires fail! So just flip a coin and increase your odds.
The failure rate our client experienced with the VP of Sales position was painful for them, but it is not unusual.
When companies hire a six-figure executive, they expect them to “hit the ground running” and produce results quickly. But according to our surveys […]

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