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Almost every bad hire I've seen has the same fingerprint:The team was short-handed. Urgency took over. The structured pr...
08/28/2026

Almost every bad hire I've seen has the same fingerprint:

The team was short-handed. Urgency took over. The structured process got skipped 'just this once'.

Three months later, the cost shows up.

The most expensive hires are the ones made fastest.

If you're under hiring pressure right now, the question to ask isn't 'how fast can we get someone in'. It's 'what's the actual cost if this hire doesn't work out'.

Speed is a tax on the next 12 months.

When was the last time hiring pressure pushed you into a decision you later regretted?

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One of the best hiring decisions I've ever helped a client make wasn't a 'yes' to a great candidate.It was a 'not yet' t...
08/26/2026

One of the best hiring decisions I've ever helped a client make wasn't a 'yes' to a great candidate.

It was a 'not yet' to a candidate everyone else loved.

The candidate interviewed brilliantly. References were glowing. The team wanted to make an offer the next day.

The benchmark said: not a fit for this role.

The CEO trusted the data and we paused. Six weeks later, the right person came through.

Twelve months later that hire was the top performer on the team.

The benchmark didn't make the decision. The CEO did. The benchmark just gave them the courage to wait.

That's what this work is really about: giving leaders the information to back their gut, or the conviction to ignore it when needed.

What's a 'not yet' decision you wish you'd made in hiring?

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08/24/2026

Most hiring mistakes aren't unique. They're the same five, made by different leaders.

After thousands of post-mortems with clients, these are the recurring ones:

• Hiring the second-place candidate from your last search instead of restarting
• Promoting your best individual contributor without rebenchmarking the new role
• Letting urgency override the structured process
• Trusting an internal referral without running the same assessment
• Skipping the reference checks because the interview went well

You can't avoid every hiring mistake. You can stop making the same five.

Which of these does your business make most often?

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Every method I use with clients is in The Magic of Job Match.If you've ever wondered:• How to define what 'great' looks ...
08/21/2026

Every method I use with clients is in The Magic of Job Match.

If you've ever wondered:

• How to define what 'great' looks like in your roles
• Why some people thrive and others struggle in the same job
• How to make hiring feel less like a coin toss

This is the book.

Get your copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDJJXYGK

The leaders who stop growing don't always look stuck. From the outside, they often look stable.Here are five quieter sig...
08/19/2026

The leaders who stop growing don't always look stuck. From the outside, they often look stable.

Here are five quieter signs we see in Leadership 360 reports when a leader has stalled:

• Their team's feedback hasn't shifted in 18 months
• They're describing the same problems they were last year
• They blame external factors for the same kinds of issues
• Their direct reports stop offering ideas
• They've stopped asking, 'How am I doing?'

Stalling isn't a character flaw. It's a feedback gap. And it's reversible.

The fix is usually a structured 360 and a willingness to act on what comes back.

Which sign is the hardest to see in yourself?

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If you have a sales team of ten and even four of them are average rather than top performers, you have $1 million in hid...
08/17/2026

If you have a sales team of ten and even four of them are average rather than top performers, you have $1 million in hidden lost revenue this year.

That's the math:

• Top performer vs average rep: ~$250k revenue gap per year
• Four mis-fit reps × $250k = $1 million

Same product. Same comp plan. Same territory.

The difference is fit. And fit can be measured before you hire.

This is why I do this work. The numbers are too big to leave to luck.

What's your top-performer-to-average ratio right now?

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08/14/2026

A pattern I've noticed across 20 years of client work:

Leaders consistently underestimate what their best people actually want.

The assumption is usually money or title. The reality is almost always:

• Clarity on what 'great' looks like in their role
• Honest feedback delivered with respect
• Confidence that the people around them are also being held to a high standard
• A leader who is also working on themselves

Top performers don't leave because of pay. They leave because the environment around them isn't matching their standard.

If you want to retain your best people, the work isn't in the comp plan. It's in the hiring decisions you make around them and the leadership behavior you model.

What's the most underrated reason your best people stay?

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If you set up your hiring benchmark more than 12 months ago and haven't reviewed it, it's already drifting.Reasons bench...
08/12/2026

If you set up your hiring benchmark more than 12 months ago and haven't reviewed it, it's already drifting.

Reasons benchmarks drift:

• Your top performers change. The ones you benchmarked may have left or moved roles.
• The role itself evolves. What 'great' looks like in 2026 is not the same as 2024.
• The market changes. The traits that matter most in your industry shift.

The good news is reviewing a benchmark takes a couple of hours, not months.

The process:

• Identify your current top performers in the role
• Compare what they have in common to your original benchmark
• Update the standard your future hires are measured against

Most of our clients do this annually. The ones who do it consistently outhire the ones who don't.

When was the last time you reviewed your hiring benchmark?

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After running Leadership 360s for years, one habit shows up in every leader who consistently improves:They ask for feedb...
08/10/2026

After running Leadership 360s for years, one habit shows up in every leader who consistently improves:

They ask for feedback regularly.

Not at performance reviews. Not when something goes wrong. Regularly, casually, specifically: 'Hey, in that meeting, what did you notice? What could I have done differently?'

It's a small habit. It changes everything.

Three reasons it works:

• It signals to the team that feedback is normal, not punishment
• It catches small problems before they become big ones
• It builds the muscle of receiving feedback without defensiveness

The leaders who do this look like they're improving fast. They're not. They're just collecting information everyone else is missing.

When was the last time you asked for specific feedback from someone on your team?

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08/07/2026

Most leaders know what a bad hire costs to make. Few have honestly costed what it costs to keep one.

The hidden costs of holding on to a mis-hire:

• The cumulative drag on your top performers (energy spent covering and re-doing)
• The quiet message to the team about your hiring standard
• The compounding loss of the role's revenue or output potential
• The opportunity cost of the right person who could be in that seat
• Your own time spent managing around the gap

Letting go is hard. Keeping a mis-hire 12 months too long is harder, and more expensive.

The kindest decision for everyone is usually the one you've been delaying.

What's the longest you've kept someone past the point you knew it wasn't working?

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