Horn: Executive hiring success can be evaluated within three months
Caroline Horn · a16z Podcast | Hiring is Hard -- Here’s How to Do it Right · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:23
Caroline Horn of a16z's Executive Talent team discusses using pre-hire 100-day action plans to evaluate new executive performance quickly.
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“It doesn't have to take, you know, a year to determine that someone isn't working out. If they're, you know, three months in, and they're not hitting some of those goals that they expected to, then it's pretty apparent.”
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