Your Hiring Process Fails. Inertia Is Why You Haven't Fixed It.
Shane Parrish gives us a “whack in the head” - major wisdom point in his book, Clear Thinking:
"Starting something is hard, but so too is stopping something.
We resist change even when change is for the best."
Parrish calls this the Inertia Default.
The Latin root of "inertia" literally means laziness or idleness. Physicist Leonard Mlodinow puts it bluntly: "Once our minds are set in a direction, they tend to continue in that direction unless acted upon by some outside force."
So… here's the question you need to sit with:
What will be YOUR outside force?
Because right now, inertia is running your hiring decisions. And it is costing you far more than you realize.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
The finalist candidate who chose your competitor instead of you.
The new hire who no-showed on Day 1.
The person who crushed it in every interview - then couldn't follow a basic process in Week 1.
The solid team member who quit because your new hire was damaging the culture they believed in.
The promising new hire who left after 90 days because they never felt set up to succeed.
Each of these is painful. Expensive. Yet, preventable.
Yet inertia whispers the same comfortable lie every time: "It's not that bad. I have more important things to do."
That lie is keeping your hiring system broken.
Jim Collins - leadership guru, author, and former Stanford professor - said it as clearly as it can be said: "The right people are your most important asset. The wrong people are your greatest liability."
Think about that for a moment.
Your most important asset. Your greatest liability. Both determined by the same decision: Who you hire.
And yet, most companies have never once invested in formally training their hiring decision makers. Never. The people interviewing and selecting your next key hire are improvising - relying on gut feel, habit, and hope.
That is the inertia default in action.
Here's what breaking it looks like:
1. New belief: Our hiring system is not good enough, and our people need real training to make better decisions.
2. New process: A proven hiring system - like Hire the Best - that builds consistency and confidence into every hire you make.
3. New habits: Hiring decision makers who have been coached by professionals, not left to figure it out on their own.
The outside force you need doesn't have to be another bad hire.
It can be a conversation.
Talk with me for 15-30 minutes. I'll give you free, specific ideas to start fixing your hiring system right now. No pitch. No pressure. Just insight you can use immediately.
The cost of doing nothing keeps compounding. The cost of one conversation is zero.
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?
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