Last year, I was advising a company founder when he discovered that the very high-level executive they had hired was not performing in the job. They had missed something in the interviewing and recruiting process. At this point, it was a difficult problem to fix. The founder of this family-owned company needed to know where he went wrong.

I helped them figure out where they went wrong and didn't ask the right questions during the interview. They learned from it. But, it shouldn't have happened to begin with. You must position your C-Suite hiring to attract the very best candidates and dig deep. It is easier to prevent a mistake at such a high level than to correct one!