Doubling Down When You Hire Wrong

Shane Parrish warns us in Clear Thinking:  “When circumstances change, we need to adapt.”

Your circumstances have changed.

You believe your hiring system was good enough to attract, assess, and add top performers to your team.  Maybe it was in the past, but today it's failing too often.  The people you hire are not meeting your expectations - or they quit too soon.

Yet you haven't changed a thing.

Parrish explains exactly why:  

"Inertia closes minds and stifles the motivation

to change how we've been doing things."

And then this:  

"The longer we avoid the hard thing we know we should do,

the harder it becomes to do."

Read that again.

The longer you delay fixing your hiring system, the more impossible it feels to fix.  What started as a manageable problem - a few bad hires, a flawed process, an untrained hiring team - has quietly grown in your mind into something overwhelming.

But here's the truth:  

Your hiring, management, employee development, and retention problems have grown in direction relation to the amount of time you have avoided fixing your hiring system and skills.

You know your hiring system is broken.  You know the people making your hiring decisions have never been formally trained.  You know this is costing you money, time, growth opportunities, and good people.

And yet you keep running the same broken process with limited skills and expecting different results.

That is the Inertia Default in its most expensive form.

The fix is still small.  It is not the monster your fear has misrepresented it to be.  A few hours and a modest investment are all it takes to start building a hiring system and improved hiring skills that actually work.

Saving the financial, time, and emotional losses caused by one more bad hire far exceeds the cost of fixing your hiring problems today.

Drop a comment below or email info@hirethebest.co to schedule your free consultation.

Isn't it worth 15 minutes to stop making bad, costly hiring decisions?

P.S.  The hard thing you know you should do is one conversation away.  Stop doubling down on a broken system.  Start building a better one.

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