Last year, I was advising a company founder when he discovered that the very high-level executive they had hired was not performing in the job.
They had missed something in the interviewing and recruiting process. Now, it was a difficult problem to fix. The founder of this family owned company needed to know where he went wrong.
They eventually understood what they failed to probe. They learned from it. But, it shouldn’t have been there to begin with.
You must position your C-Suite hiring to attract the very best candidates and dig deep. It is easier to prevent a mistake in the C-Suite than to correct one!
