Yanisse: Give underperforming executives 3 to 6 months to course-correct
Daniel Yanisse · Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jul 2, 2022 · at 11:15
Daniel Yanisse is the co-founder and CEO of Checkr. He discusses executive performance management and why founders should refrain from firing struggling leaders prematurely without feedback.
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“You do need to give them some time and, you know, also founders, I would say suck at giving feedback. There's many reasons why For some days it's hard to give, you know, constructive feedback to senior leaders, but you do need to give them feedback to talk about it with them and to give them, I don't know, I would say three to six months is a good period of time to let, to try to course correct.”
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