There is a wealth of new methods, backed by research and new data sets, to inform the hiring of executive teams. Despite this, many companies still approach hiring based on outdated principles and concepts, which means that they are not making optimally successful hiring decisions.
The way many companies continue to hire is via an approach based on ideas and principles that may no longer hold up in the face of insights and data that have emerged over the last couple of years.
That research focused on Fortune 500 companies, but we know that the findings hold true for South Africa as well, as we found with our own research as contained in the Jack Hammer Executive Report Volume 3.
