Retained vs. Contingency Search: Which Actually Reduces Hiring Risk
Most companies would never approve an investment with a 40–50% chance of failure. Especially not one where the downside is $3–5M+ per decision. Yet that is the reality of executive hiring across industries. Not because leaders are careless, but because hiring decisions are still evaluated as recruiting transactions rather than risk decisions. In our observation […]
The 90-Day Cliff: How to Protect Your $3.7M Executive Hire
The most expensive moment in executive hiring isn’t the search. It’s the first 90 days after placement. Roughly half of executive placements fail within 18 months. Most executive failures don’t happen randomly. They follow a repeatable pattern inside the first 90 days. Once momentum is lost in that window, recovery becomes exponentially harder. In this […]