The post has accumulated over 13,000 responses and several comments.
Anupam Mittal, founder and CEO of Shaadi.com, recently appeared on LinkedIn and talked about how hiring the wrong leaders can ruin a company despite having a passionate team and innovative products and services. I emphasized how it could cause it to collapse. In his post, Mittal also shared the three steps he is focusing on to hire senior leaders for his company. “How do you destroy a company? Hire the wrong leader!” a SharkTank India judge wrote on LinkedIn. “You can have an innovative product, a passionate team, and a booming market, but it all comes crashing down due to a few bad decisions at the executive level,” he adds. Ta.
Mittal acknowledged in his post that hiring “the right senior talent” is not easy. Especially when the fancy recruitment tools, psychometric assessments, and interview techniques that promise the perfect hire are only “barely effective.” He then revealed how he selects his company’s senior candidates: “We have a lot of meetings,” we “do anonymous reference checks,” and we “hire a contractor.”
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Mittal shared the post just a day ago and since then it has accumulated over 13,000 reactions and several comments.
“Personally, I believe we need real psychometric evaluations by real psychiatrists at leadership level (rather than just tools). Psychiatrists need to be included in important decision-making meetings. Incorporating authentic psychometric assessments and direct psychiatric evaluations into leader decision-making can provide valuable emotional and cognitive insights that enrich and improve the decision-making process. A holistic approach could be encouraged,” one user commented.
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“Very well said. 1st point: I don’t do that, but you gave a good insight. I’ll start following. 2nd and 3rd points I also strongly agree and try to follow, but your question about the second point is that the network is strong enough, but not ours, so I have a feeling that the candidate is good. What do I do if I can’t find any recommendations after making all these decisions?Third, how do you identify builders during interviews?” Another shared.
“I completely agree with your point. Hiring the wrong leader can bring down any company. It’s better to train the existing leaders and promote them to their positions,” said a third user. said. “You sound like he’s 100% ready to interview 10 people at the same time,” she said a fourth person said.
