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Hired Guns Too Often Shoot Blanks

By John Hazard ⋅ November 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Does it pay to hire the best candidate money can buy? Probably not, said Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
More often than not the hired gun is a dud, he said. “Outside successors seldom succeed.” Nevertheless, businesses love hiring outsiders (especially for chief executive officer and other C-level [...]

The Hiring and Salary Freeze Begins to Thaw

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Nearly half of American companies (47 percent) say they will hire executives and senior managers in the last quarter of 2009, according to a survey of 201 employers by Watson Wyatt, a business-consulting firm.
Fifty-four percent of employers who locked salaries in 2009 intended to initiate raises in the next six months, and 70 percent plan [...]